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# grope

«grope» in Mova's school dictionary: **To feel about with the hands because you cannot see…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (gropes, groped, groping)

### meaning for a pupil

To feel about with the hands because you cannot see, searching for something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grope/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

characters search in the dark or in a hiding place by touch, as in «grope about»

### examples

- I groped for the light switch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grope/#x1)
- He groped about in the dark for his shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grope/#x2)
- She groped her way down the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grope/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.104/)
- [They grope in the dark without light, and He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.307/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grope» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grope/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.