Groped vs Growed - What's the difference?
groped | growed |
(grope)
(lb) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
*(Joseph Stevens Buckminster) (1751-1812)
*:to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.4:
*:Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
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(lb) To examine; to test; to sound.
:(Chaucer)
*Genevan Testament ((w) xxiv)
*:''Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.
(informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.
(obsolete) an iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 544.
(US, dialect) (grow)
(ergative) To become bigger.
To appear or sprout.
To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
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(copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
(obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between groped and growed
is that groped is (grope) while growed is (us|dialect) (grow).groped
English
Verb
(head)grope
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Noun
(en noun)- Gropes appear to be pieces of iron binding together the inner joint of the fitting, and grope-nails to have been used for fastening these to the wood.
growed
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Verb
(head)grow
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Verb
- Children grow quickly.
- Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
- A long tail began to grow from his backside.
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- He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
- Have you ever grown your hair before?
- The boy grew wise as he matured.
- The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
- You have grown strong.
- Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow .