explore vs feel around

explore

verb
  • To travel somewhere in search of discovery. 

  • To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses. 

  • To examine diagnostically. 

  • To (seek) experience first hand. 

  • To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats. 

  • To wander without any particular aim or purpose. 

  • To examine or investigate something systematically. 

noun
  • An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like. 

feel around

verb
  • To grope; to explore an area with one's hands, usually in search of something. 

  • To gather information sneakily; to seek out information without revealing that one is looking for it. 

How often have the words explore and feel around occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )