agrope

a- +‎ grope

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹoʊp/
• Rhymes: -əʊp

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.

• porage