Grope
GROPE, verb intransitive
1. To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.
We grope for the wall like the blind. [[Isaiah 59#10|Isaiah 59:10]].
The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.
2. To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.
GROPE, verb transitive To search by feeling in the dark.
We groped our way at midnight.