This is one of those smartie-pants verbs that everyone should know, be able to use, but never have to in actual conversation. Meaning simply "to touch" but in an examinatory fashion, it would be acceptable to use in medicinal conversation or perhaps when discussing a creepy neighbor or an ex. Use with caution.
Standing before the oranges in the produce section, the elderly woman palpated each fruit as if she were a pubescent teenage boy in the back seat of his car with a girl for the first time.
Clinging to the wall with my back and in the blackest of darkness after the lights went out in the haunted house, I extended my arm and trembling fingers, palpating the pealing and damp surface for some semblance of a light switch.
Sergio del Limónar
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