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gropingly

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grope  (grp)
v. groped, grop·ing, gropes
v.intr.
1. To reach about uncertainly; feel one's way: groped for the telephone.
2. To search blindly or uncertainly: grope for an answer.
v.tr.
1. To make (one's way) by reaching about uncertainly.
2. Slang To handle or fondle for sexual pleasure.
n.
The act or an instance of groping.
[Middle English gropen, from Old English grpian.]
groper n.
groping·ly adv.
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Adv.1.gropingly - in an uncertain groping manner
Translations
gropingly
adv → tastend


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Then she put out her hand and began to feel gropingly about; then said, "I cannot find it; blow 'taps.
A Horse's Tale by Twain, Mark View in context
Gropingly backward into the past reached the fingers of memory, until at last they seized upon a faint picture, faded and yellow with the passing years.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
They had proceeded thus gropingly two or three miles further when on a sudden Clare became conscious of some vast erection close in his front, rising sheer from the grass.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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