Thesaurus / grope
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Then she closed the door as quietly as possible, and clutching the handrail began to grope her way downstairs.
DOPESAX ROHMERAfter a time she managed to grope her way to her bedroom, where, turning up the light, she sank down helplessly upon the bed.
DOPESAX ROHMERThe front room, as I entered to grope for the matches, felt as cold as a stone vault, and the air held an unusual dampness.
MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY, VOL. 1 (OF 4)VARIOUSIt is not merely that I, the fanatic, have had to grope without humour.
THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILLGILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt shot out long sinuous pseudopods that seemed to grope angrily.
THE REVOLT OF THE STAR MENRAYMOND GALLUNSuddenly Meyrick was seen to start as if he had been shot, and to grope wildly and hurriedly in his pockets.
FORGING THE BLADESBERTRAM MITFORDWe have now to grope our way towards a basis of sanity and health in these vital matters.
THE BOOK OF LIFE: VOL. I MIND AND BODY; VOL. II LOVE AND SOCIETYUPTON SINCLAIRHopeless to search further among empty swamps and forests, to grope at large in this hushed wilderness, to coerce a jungle.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELLThe weapon would not need to hesitate and grope; it would obtain admission into the tissues off-hand.
MORE HUNTING WASPSJ. HENRI FABREAll the other historians suffer from a certain bedazzlement in which they grope about.
THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S CLASSICS, RESTRICTED TO PROSE, VOL. VII (OF X)--CONTINENTAL EUROPE IVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO GROPE
- blunder
- bobble
- cast about
- come apart at the seams
- drop the ball
- fall down
- flop
- flummox
- foul up
- fumble
- go at backwards
- go to pieces
- grope
- labor
- lurch
- make a mess of
- miss one's cue
- muddle
- plunge
- pratfall
- screw up
- slip up
- snafu
- strive
- stub one's toe
- stumble
- thrash
- toil
- toss
- travail
- trip up
- tumble
- wallow
- work at
- blundered
- bobbled
- came apart at the seams
- cast about
- dropped the ball
- fell down
- flopped
- flummoxed
- foul up
- fumbled
- groped
- labored
- lurched
- made a mess of
- missed one's cue
- muddled
- plunged
- pratfalled
- screwed up
- slipped up
- snafued
- strove
- stub one's toe
- stumbled
- thrashed
- toiled
- tossed
- travailed
- tripped up
- tumbled
- wallowed
- went at backwards
- went to pieces
- worked at
- be on the lookout
- cast about
- delve
- drag
- examine
- ferret out
- fish for
- forage
- go after
- grope
- inquire
- interrogate
- investigate
- look all over hell
- look high and low
- nose around
- probe
- prowl
- quest
- question
- ransack
- rummage
- run down
- scour
- scratch around
- search high heaven
- seek
- sift
- trace
- trail
- try to find
- winnow
- abut
- adjoin
- be in contact
- border
- brush
- butt on
- caress
- come together
- communicate
- contact
- converge
- dab
- examine
- feel
- finger
- fondle
- frisk
- glance
- graze
- grope
- handle
- impinge upon
- inspect
- join
- kiss
- lay a finger on
- line
- manipulate
- march
- massage
- meet
- neighbor
- osculate
- palm
- partake
- pat
- paw
- percuss
- pet
- probe
- push
- reach
- rub
- scrutinize
- sip
- smooth
- strike
- stroke
- suck
- sweep
- tag
- tap
- taste
- thumb
- tickle
- tip
- toy
- verge
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