grope for

Verb

Meaning

feel searchingly

Source: WordNet

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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. Shana Alexander

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard. George H. W. Bush

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. Bob Considine

She groped for his keys in the dark Source: Internet

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