agrope
English
Etymology
a- + grope
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈɡɹoʊp/
- Rhymes: -əʊp
Adverb
agrope (not comparable)
- 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.
- Life and life and life! agrope 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.
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the World
Anagrams
- porage