Grapple

Quick meaning: Grapple is a verb meaning (transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.

Meaning

(transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To wrestle or tussle.
2. (figuratively, with with) To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
3. A close hand-to-hand struggle.
4. The act of grappling. (uncountable)
5. A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
6. (transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).

Example Sentences

to grapple with one's conscience

The gallies were grapled to the Centurion.

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

Fear of death is a universal human concern with which all thinking people at some point grapple.

Word Forms

• grapples
• grappling
• grappled
• graple

Synonyms for grapple

Depending on context, synonyms include contend, manage, grip, deal, wrestle, cope.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wrestle, grip, wrestling, make do, contend, cope.

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