agrope

a- +‎ grope

agrope (not comparable)

1. In the act of groping.
   • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

     Life and life and life! agrope in
     The dusk of death, warm hands, stretched out
     For swords, proved more life still to hope in.

   • 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