'Grope' definitions:

Definition of 'grope'

noun

The act of groping; and instance of groping

verb

Feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" [syn: grope, fumble]

verb

Search blindly or uncertainly; "His mind groped to make the connection"

verb

Fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"

From: GCIDE

Grope \Grope\ (gr[=o]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groped (gr[=o]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Groping.] [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. gr[=a]pian to touch, grope, fr. gr[imac]pan to gripe. See Gripe.]
1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
2. 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. [1913 Webster]
We grope for the wall like the blind. --Is. lix. 10. [1913 Webster]
To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Grope \Grope\, v. t.
1. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight. [1913 Webster]
2. To examine; to test; to sound. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe. --Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ). [1913 Webster]