Antonyms for grapple

Grammar : Verb

Spell : grap-uhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈgræp əl

Definition of grapple

Origin : late 13c., from Old French grapil "hook" (see grapnel). The verb is 1520s, "seize and hold fast," from the noun. Sense of "battle, struggle (with)" is from 1590s. Related: Grappled; grappling.

verb grab, wrestle

Example sentences :

What courage was requisite to grapple with this giant difficulty!
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

He was much smaller than the other, but he knew that he was far and away stronger after that grapple.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

To-night we grapple for the heavy cable, eight tons to the mile.
Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro

There must be a power which can go behind these and grapple with causes.
Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee

Something that he could not repel since it had no substance he could grapple with.
Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini

He felled a Lodorian who, having lost his tube, was about to grapple with him.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 » by Various

Whether he meant this for a promise to grapple with supernatural evil I couldn't tell.
Extract from : « The Shadow-Line » by Joseph Conrad

Every blood-vessel was striving to grapple with the present.
Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson

His singular brain could grapple simultaneously with these multifarious subjects.
Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett

There was a grapple and a fall, but when they got up Lett had the Idaho "gun" in his hand.
Extract from : « Policing the Plains » by R.G. MacBeth

Synonyms for grapple

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