grope

GROPE, verb intransitive 1. To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.We grope for the wall like the blind. Isaiah 59:10.The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.2. To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.GROPE, verb transitive To search by feeling in the dark.We groped our way at midnight.But Strephon, cautious, never meantThe bottom of the pan to grope