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 →

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 →
• He groped about in the dark for his shoes. tree →
• She groped her way down the stairs. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
• They grope in the dark without light, and He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «grope» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.