Synonyms for grapple
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : grap-uhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgræp əl |
Top 10 synonyms for grapple Other synonyms for the word grapple
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for grapple
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