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Fumble in the dark
Answer for the clue "Fumble in the dark ", 5 letters:
grope
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Word definitions for grope in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English grapian "to feel about (as one blind or in darkness)," originally "lay hold of, seize, touch, attain," related to gripan "grasp at" (see gripe ). Figurative sense is from early 14c. Indecent sense (marked as "obsolete" in OED) is from c.1200. ...
Usage examples of grope.
We took it all in as we played chase, until we stopped near another door to grope and kiss before heading back out into the public areas, giggling and grinning as we did so.
Dirk raised his fists, groping, could scarcely hold them up, the cestas suddenly unbearably heavy.
When they had finished their bowls to the last drop, Chiao Tai rose and groped in his sleeve.
He groped for the steel lip and tentatively snaked both hands inside until they collided with the topmost mound of cinerous residue.
Steve moaned his citified inadequacy while he groped in the dark cave, trying to make his brain remember where the packsack was.
And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, least by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.
Jerry Cruncher eyed the Lieutenant with something very much like disgust and he groped his pipe from his pocket.
While inimical stares from the councilmen sharpened around the table, and the Mayor of Isaer whispered something to a servant that brought guardsmen in full mail to block the doorway, Lord Diegan groped to draw the hidden dagger in his sleeve.
He stretched out one hand, groping in the gray gloom, and found the drawcord of the drapes.
Then he reached forward, groped blindly into the fresh earthfall, and at last felt the timer.
And the phylum Echinodermata she left far behind, left the starfishes, the sea urchins, and their allies to grope in peace in the dark water of the sea.
He had groped for firedogs in the hearth, thinking he might use them to break down the door, but the fireplace was empty.
He had struck Gaz again heavily, and when he reached down again to grope for his weapon his hand contacted it immediately, as though someone had placed it in his grasp.
It was worms, she thought: they burst through the curtain of filthy rags that covered the squirming globby flesh, huge as serpents, their round reddish heads groping blind.
He grinned back crookedly, feeling the woman-generated guilt spreading all through him like the slow groping tentacles of a fungus.