to grope around
11grope — 1 verb 1 (intransitive always + adv/prep) to try to find something that you cannot see by feeling with your hands (+ for/through/around etc): Ginny groped for her glasses on the bedside table. | groping around in the dark 2 grope your way… …
12grope — [grəʊp] verb 1) [I] to try to find something by feeling with your hands She was groping around in her bag for her keys.[/ex] I groped my way to the door.[/ex] 2) [I] to search for an idea or a way to say something without being certain of what… …
13grope — v 1. feel one s way, probe, grabble, scrabble, fumble, poke around, pick one s way, move blindly. 2. fish for, angle for, hunt for, look for, cast or beat around for; send out a feeler, send up a trial balloon, see how the land lies, see which… …
14grope — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. feel, essay, fumble; attempt; hunt, search. See feeling, touch. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. fumble, touch, feel blindly; see feel 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. feel about, finger, seek blindly …
15poke around — PHRASAL VERB If you poke around or poke about for something, you search for it, usually by moving lots of objects around. [INFORMAL] [V P n] He poked around the top of his cupboard for the bottle of whisky... [V P] We opened up the car bonnet and …
16poke around — Synonyms and related words: beat about, beat the bushes, burrow, delve, dig, explore, feel around, feel for, forage, frisk, fumble, go through, grabble, grope, grope for, hunt, look around, look round, look through, nose around, poke, pry, pry… …
17go around in circles — Synonyms and related words: agonize over, be at sea, be uncertain, beat about, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumvent, close the circle, come full circle, compass, cycle, describe a… …
18feel around — verb to grope …
19poke about — grope around, search for using the sense of touch …
20ferret — verb 1) she ferreted in her handbag Syn: rummage, feel around, grope around, forage around, fish around/about, poke around/about; search through, hunt through, rifle through 2) ferreting out misdemeanors Syn: unearth …
