Crossword-Solution: GROPE 5 letters, 79 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Grope v. i. To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
Grope v. i. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or,
as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in
darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one
can not see.
Grope v. t. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our
way at midnight.
Grope v. t. To examine; to test; to sound.

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Word Anagrams
GROPE anagram GOPER, PERGO, PORGE, PREGO

We have 79 clues for the answer “GROPE”

Clue Answers
Fumble around in the dark, e.g. 1 answer
Not a nice feeling 1 answer
Move when the fuse blows. 1 answer
Look uncertainly (for) 1 answer
Look for the light switch 1 answer
Inappropriate feeling? 1 answer
Harass, in a physical way 1 answer
Get a feel for things? 1 answer
Fumble in the dark 1 answer
Fumble blindly 1 answer
Paw at 1 answer
Feel inappropriately 1 answer
Feel inappropriate? 1 answer
Feel in the dark 1 answer
Feel for the light switch, say 1 answer
Feel for a light switch 1 answer
Feel blindly 1 answer
Feel around in the dark 1 answer
Feel around blindly 1 answer
Feel around (for) 1 answer
Search blindly 1 answer
Struggle blindly 1 answer
Seek uncertainly. 1 answer
Seek blindly. 1 answer
Search without light 1 answer
Search with the hands 1 answer
Search with just the hands 1 answer
Search uncertainly 1 answer
Search in the dark 1 answer
Search desperately 1 answer
Feel around 1 answer
SEEK with hands 1 answer
SEEK manually 1 answer
Really feel for? 1 answer
Reach wildly (for) 1 answer
Reach uncertainly 1 answer
Reach out blindly 1 answer
Reach for the light switch in the dark 1 answer
Reach about for the light switch, e.g. 1 answer
Feel about blindly 1 answer
Feel about 1 answer
Explore with feeling? 1 answer
Fumble (for) 2 answers
Feel badly 2 answers
Search, in a way 2 answers
Feel one's way 2 answers
Betray uncertainty 2 answers
EXPLORE by touch 2 answers
grabble 3 answers
ASCERTAIN by touch 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GROPE (5)

Therefore, when the dead are buried, Let a fire, as night approaches, Four times on the grave be kindled, That the soul upon its journey May not lack the cheerful firelight, May not grope about in darkness.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
And yet his fortune brings him little joy; For blind of seeing, clad in beggar’s weeds, For purple robes, and leaning on his staff, To a strange land he soon shall grope his way.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Some students grope toward the idea of an archive, a new idea to them, since they have not previously experienced what it means to have access to a vast body of somewhat random information.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Abide till I grope about for a stick or two." Ralph laughed in turn, as he heard the new-comer moving about; then he heard the click of the steel on the flint, and saw the sparks showering down, so that a little piece of the wood grew green again to his eyes.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008
Then somebody remembered that when Farragut advanced upon Port Hudson on a dark night--and did not wish to assist the aim of the Confederate gunners--he carried no battle-lanterns, but painted the decks of his ships white, and thus created a dim but valuable light, which enabled his own men to grope their way around with considerable facility.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

Quotes with GROPE (3)

Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in bewilderment and felt my cheeks, my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was, I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wan…
Jeanette Winterson
Speak you too, speak as the last, say out your say. Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes. Give your say this meaning too: Give it the shadow. Give it shadow enough, Give it as much As you know is spread round you from Midnight to midday and midnight. Look around: See how things all come alive-By death! Alive! Speaks true who speaks shadow. But now the place shrinks, where you stand: Where now, shadow-stripped, where? Climb. Grope upwards. Thinner you grow, less knowable, fin…
Paul Celan
In the years since the disaster, I often think of my friend Arturo Nogueira, and the conversations we had in the mountains about God. Many of my fellow survivors say they felt the personal presence of God in the mountains. He mercifully allowed us to survive, they believe, in answer to our prayers, and they are certain it was His hand that led us home. I deeply respect the faith of my friends, but, to be honest, as hard as I prayed for a miracle in the Andes, I never felt the…
Nando Parrado
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 105 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).