Definition of grope

• v. i. - To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
• 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.
• v. t. - To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
• v. t. - To examine; to test; to sound.