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gropple

gropple verb: to grope about.

Verb

gropple (third-person singular simple present gropples, present participle groppling, simple past and past participle groppled)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, rare) To grope about.
    • Above the junction the little weedy, bright, creeping brooks, afforded good sport for small truants groppling about with their hands, or bobbing with lobworms under the hollow banks, but were not available for the scientific angler.1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford: A Sequel to School Days at Rugby, page 760

Forms of gropple

third-person singular presentgropples
present participlegroppling
past participlegroppled
pastgroppled

Questions about gropple

What does gropple mean?
Gropple means to grope about.
What part of speech is gropple?
Gropple is a verb.
What is the past tense of gropple?
The past tense of gropple is groppled.

Words near gropple in the dictionary

  1. gropings
  2. Gropnița
  3. Gropp
  4. gropper
  5. groppers
  6. gropple
  7. groppled
  8. gropples
  9. groppling
  10. groppo
  11. Gropps

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