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grapple English

Meaning grapple meaning

What does grapple mean?
Definitions in simple English

grapple Verb

— If you grapple, you engage in a close fight or struggle without weapons.

grapple Noun

— A grapple is a tool with hooks which is used to catch or hold onto something.

grapple

— verb (= get by, make do) come to terms with We got by on just a gallon of gas They made do on half a loaf of bread every day — verb (= grip) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match the two men grappled with each other for several minutes — noun (= grapnel) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope — noun (= clamshell) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam — noun (= wrestle, wrestling, grappling) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat they had a fierce wrestle we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully

Synonyms grapple synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as grapple?

grapple English » English

catch capture wrestle grapnel grab fight grasp struggle seize scuffle grip clutch grappling iron grappling battle snatch manage grappling hook grappler wrestling trap nab deal cope contend combat captivate apprehend tussle strife quarrel make out make do hand-to-hand struggle get by dogfight conflict come to blows clamshell clamp war tug-of-war tongs to bind closely tie tear from take hold tackle swoop struggle with

Topics grapple topics

What do people use grapple to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach

Conjugation grapple conjugation

How do you conjugate grapple?

grapple · verb

Examples grapple examples

How do I use grapple in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

She finds herself having to grapple with domestic problems in Bermuda, Malta or Weymouth.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Grapple his ship, and capture him alive.
In particular, 1431 Lieutenant Colonel Grapple, later to be known as Grapple of the Bedoo, who impressed me no end.
Left, right, left, right, left. (Grapple) Coming dressed in overalls.
Remember me, Grapple of the Bedoo.
Huzzah! Good old Colonel Grapple.
Good old Colonel Grapple!
Grapple MC. Grapple of the Bedoo.
Two big men, way out in the middle of the desert playing grapple-finger.
Draconian battle cruiser is now about to grapple.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried. grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.
On a dozen far-flung battle fronts, Russia was engaged in a death grapple with the enemy.
Is not the person to grapple with the intricacies of Miss Deveraux's abduction.
To the last I will grapple with thee.
Mr. Steele, may we follow your investigation. watch a- a crack detective grapple with a 30-year-old puzzle? Oh, yes.
Grapple my hand when we jump.
Stand by for grapple.
Activating grapple.
Negative contact on grapple.
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away.
Finding ourselves too slow of sail we put on a compelled valor, and in the grapple I boarded them.
They probably intend to grapple it onto the reactor, then run before it blows.
Recommend we go in find a stable area where we can grapple on and burn our way through.
Takedown, grapple and pin. Happiness loses.
Taking time to grapple with the thoughts and concepts you're exposed to, not like memorization, jobe.
Coordinating vectors for grapple.
Computer, lock on to Delta 1 and prepare to grapple.
Recommend we go in. find a stable area where we can grapple on and burn our way through.
I grapple with it like a wrestler.
Do you understand the kinds of shit I got to grapple with now because of what you assholes did?

News and current affairs

As other societies grapple with their own increasing diversity, they may follow the US into crisis.
So it is right that the EU Council of Ministers is meeting to grapple with this challenge.
This will be no easy task, and one that may be far from policymakers' minds as they grapple with the current crisis.
As in Georgia and Ukraine, Tunisia and Egypt will have new governments to grapple with old problems.
Fifteen years after his murder, Sweden and the West must grapple with what Palme left behind, his anti-Western agitation and his willingness to see fundamental ideals of freedom as merely relative values.
The US never had to grapple with any one of these problems in the severity that they grip Africa.
It is so much easier to avert your eyes from citizens than to grapple with their plight.
To grapple with this dilemma, we must understand culture's place in human life.
As we grapple with our joint water future, we will face a time of trial and error in finding workable solutions.
But many Japanese were dumbfounded to learn that their finance minister began to grapple with the basic principles of economics only after assuming office.
We are only beginning to grapple with how big data's tremendous potential for learning can be harnessed while protecting students' privacy.
Is the new German law a model for other countries to follow as we grapple with the ethical issues posed by our growing knowledge of human genetics?
As a result, the army has neither the training nor the experience to grapple with Sinai insurgents.
Many of the EU's newest members continue to grapple with questions of geopolitical trust.
Peoples in transition from authoritarian rule - peaceful in Poland in 1989, bloody in Libya today - grapple with decisions that determine their fate for decades.
BEIRUT - Revolution across the Arab world has forced the region's peoples and governments to grapple with the need for change.
As the world begins to grapple with the creation of a new economic order, the moderating role of a third party in conflicts between the US and China will be extremely important.
They mobilize armies, organize political factions, combat warlords, or try to grapple with religious extremism.

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