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Word Meanings - GRABBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRABBLE)
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRABBLE)
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- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - CREEP
to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - GROPER
One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling. - SEARCHLESS
Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable. - CRAWL STROKE
A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee. - CROUCHED
Marked with the sign of the cross. Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched. - WALLOW
1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self - FUMBLE
famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, fumble, Icel. falme, AS. folm 1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding. 2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; - GRABBLE
Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth. - CREEPY
Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning. - CREEPLE
1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple - FUMBLER
One who fumbles. - PRETERMIT
To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon. - CRAWLY
Creepy. - CREEPINESS
An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander. - SEARCHABLENESS
Quality of being searchable. - GROVEL
adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate - ABANDON
To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender; - SEARCHABLE
Capable of being searched. - SWALLOWFISH
The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins. - SCRAWLER
One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer. - SWALLOW
Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note: - INSEARCH
To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. - RESEARCH
Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborius or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom. The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries. - AGROPE
In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning. - SEA SWALLOW
See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.