agrope

English

Etymology

a- +‎ grope

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əˈɡɹoʊp/
  • Rhymes: -əʊp

Adverb

agrope (not comparable)

  1. In the act of groping.
    • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the World:
      Life and life and life! agrope in
      The dusk of death, warm hands, stretched out
      For swords, proved more life still to hope in.
    • 1905, Edith Wharton, House of Mirth:
      And he saw other things too in her manner: saw how it had adjusted itself to the hidden intricacies of a situation in which, even after Mrs. Fisher's elucidating flashes, he still felt himself agrope.

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