Meaning

To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand..

Definitions by Sense

1. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
2. To understand.
3. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
4. (sometimes figurative) Grip.
5. Understanding.
6. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

Example Sentences

How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?

I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.

A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp.

in the tyrant's grasp

What the anvil? what dread grasp. Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

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.

If a mirror does slip from your grasp, do not attempt to catch it. Just get out of the way.

There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.

Word Forms

• grasps
• grasping
• grasped
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• grasp
• graspest
• graspedst
• graspeth
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• graps

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When Should You Use Grasp?

Use grasp when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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