agrope

English

Etymology

From 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.

Anagrams

• porage