English

agrope

From a- + grope.

Formed from a- + grope

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Old English grāpian ‘to grope’

Middle English gropien

English grope

Today it means

adv In the act of groping.

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