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[ groh-ping ] / ˈgroʊ pɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR groping ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivemoving or going about clumsily or hesitantly; stumbling. showing or reflecting a desire to understand, especially something that proves puzzling: a groping scrutiny; a groping expression. Origin of gropingMiddle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at grope, -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM gropinggrop·ing·ly, adverbWords nearby gropinggroove of nail matrix, grooving saw, groovy, grope, groper, groping, Gropius, Gropius, Walter, Gropper, Gros, grosbeak Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for groping“He was groping for some way to phrase the emotions that usually were kept securely locked up,” said Eleanor. The Stacks: The Day Lou Gehrig Delivered Baseball’s Gettysburg Address|Ray Robinson|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST The U.S. Open of Surfing dissolved into vandalism, looting, and groping. U.S. Open of Surfing Turns Into Riot|Mark Lukach|July 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST Instead, Republicans are groping for answers as the slow march toward the fiscal cliff leaves them ever more divided. Why the Fiscal Cliff Is Causing a Nervous Breakdown on the Right|Howard Kurtz|December 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST They are groping for some modulation, some way to translate complicated moral intuitions into rules a society can live by. How to End the Abortion Wars|David Frum|August 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I understand that groping our way toward a shared justice will never be easy, nor will it be perfect. Palestinian Children|Emily L. Hauser|June 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST I had read many radical books of late, in my groping for a foothold, and I had found most of them dry affairs. We went on groping our way, sometimes falling over logs, but managing again to recover our feet. With Axe and Rifle|W.H.G. Kingston He only knew that Binhart was dead, and that he himself was groping his way out into the night, a broken and desolate man. The Shadow|Arthur Stringer After about an hour's groping in the dark, we found an emergency cabin near the Mud Geyser. Down the Yellowstone|Lewis R. Freeman After that, with groping and smelling they came near to the faecal matter and the corrupted humours. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete.|Francois Rabelais
Words related to gropingflounder, cast about, search, poke, handle, root, fish, explore, examine, fumble, touch, pry, manipulate, finger, scrabble, grabble |