groping

Speech parts

1. groping - Noun

2. groping - Verb

4. groping - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Grope

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Examples

The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces. Marshall McLuhan

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything. Napoleon Bonaparte

What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping. Eric Hoffer

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines. Harriet Beecher Stowe

His insatiable passion for singular odds and ends had a meaning in it; he was groping towards a scientific ordering of phenomena; but the twilight of his age was too confusing, and he could rarely distinguish between a fact and a fantasy. John Aubrey

Night fell. I looked for a word like mine, a word to lean upon, a word to sustain me. And it seemed to me that I was going along groping my way as if expecting some one to come from round the corner and tell me everything. Henri Barbusse

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