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grip English

Meaning grip meaning

What does grip mean?
Definitions in simple English

grip Verb

— Someone grips a thing by holding it tightly in their hand. He gripped the rope and pulled.

grip Noun

— A hold or a way of holding something It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands. The ball will move differently depending on the grip used when throwing it. — A handle or a place to grip. There are several good grips on the northern face of this rock.

grip

— verb hold fast or firmly He gripped the steering wheel — noun (= clasp, grasp, hold) the act of grasping he released his clasp on my arm he has a strong grip for an old man she kept a firm hold on the railing — verb (= grapple) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match the two men grappled with each other for several minutes — verb (= fascinate) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe The snake charmer fascinates the cobra — noun (= handle, hold) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it he grabbed the hammer by the handle it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip — noun (= bag) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes he carried his small bag onto the plane with him — noun (= grasp) an intellectual hold or understanding a good grip on French history they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities he was in the grip of a powerful emotion a terrible power had her in its grasp — noun worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made — noun the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) — noun (= bobby pin) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place in Britain they call a bobby pin a grip

Synonyms grip synonyms

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

grip English » English

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Topics grip topics

What do people use grip to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Hold
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Stick together
States

Parts of things

  • What words refer to the part of something used to hold it?
    handle grip
Language and thought

Emotion
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Suffer

Conjugation grip conjugation

How do you conjugate grip?

grip · verb

Examples grip examples

How do I use grip in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He was in the grip of poverty.
I need a tighter grip on my possessions.
Get a grip on yourself!
Tom relaxed his grip.
Scores of heavily armed soldiers have tightened their grip on the capital. They are blocking streets and cordoning off government buildings as well as the airport.
Tom released his grip on the door knob.
The dictator rules the country with an iron grip.
Tom got a grip on his emotions.
He has a grip of steel.
Get a grip!
I'm losing my grip.
Tom loosened his grip.
Tom held the rope with a firm grip.
Tom has a powerful grip.
Tom tightened his grip on the bat.
You must grip that dagger this way.

Movie subtitles

These dead who cannot find peace must be murdered to deliver a tormented humanity from their grip.
Don't you think if we took a grip on our self control.
Still living still holding that island in a grip of deadly fear.
What I mean to say is, once you begin that sort of thing,...lose grip and.
Mustn't lose grip, Charters.
Why not let it go tonight and resume your grip in the morning?
Grip tightly with your legs. Lean forward and go with him.
There's a concentrated effort at readjustment to normal peacetime activity but unemployment, coming in the wake of the wartime boom is beginning to grip the country.
Losing your grip?
Driver, will you get my grip?
You grip it in the palm of the hand like this.
Chief engineer has a good grip.
Take a strong grip and pull.
Can you get a grip with your feet?
What I mean to say is, uh, once you begin that sort of thing. lose grip and, uh. and.
You're losing your grip.
Look at that grip.
Where's your grip?
You empty your grip. Okay.
Well, let it go for the night and resume your grip in the morning.
Grip tightly with your legs.
Take a good grip on yourself.
You think he wants to be in the grip of that red-headed octopus?
You palm it in this hand. You grip it in the palm of the hand like this.
I thought I was losing my grip.
Not that, exactly. but it seemed to remind me of something that I didn't have time to get a grip on.
Darling, I'm just as happy as you are, but I've got a tighter grip on my emotions.
So, for such an adventure, if we don't invent something that will grip people's eyes, ears, heart and enthusiasm! our business is done for!
I must be losing my grip.
Tell me, Maria, am I losing my grip?
Get a good grip on the ground and dig your feet in the dirt.
A little guy. Old. Got a grip and an umbrella.
Stand firm and get a good grip.
Seeing as how Sam was snatched from his loved ones' arms. before they even had time to get a good grip on him. I'm counting on you to give him a better break up yonder.
Poor Maurice. Get a grip on yourself.
Hall must be losing her grip on reality.
Your instinct was to try to loosen his grip.

News and current affairs

In the end, Putin has what history left him: not ideas, just a faction yearning to consolidate its grip on power.
No, Kuchma wants to change Ukraine's constitution for no other reason than to maintain his grip on power.
Until China is released from the grip of religious politics, Liu's ideals are unlikely to take root.
Those who monopolize power cannot imagine a world released from their grip as anything but a catastrophe.
Given the fragile grip that these leaders have over their societies, America's warnings have been taken to heart.
Last month, the Afghan leadership finally adopted - albeit half-heartedly - a transitional justice plan that could remove from power the biggest war criminals who have consolidated their grip on the country over the past five years.
On the economy, he must reconcile the priorities of full-employment Germany with those of Greece and Italy, which remain in the grip of recession and sky-high unemployment.
Michael Woodford, one of the world's leading authorities on central banking, offers a strategy to break the grip of falling prices.
Israel, meanwhile, is worried that Hamas has strengthened its military grip on Gaza, in terms of both fortifications and networks capable of launching Qassam rockets into neighboring Israeli towns.
Unless the US and the EU relinquish their grip, the Fund's latest bid for relevance may well turn out to be its last.
Far from harboring weapons of mass destruction, he was focused on maintaining his grip on power.
Starting with demand, Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and senior US official under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, recently proposed that advanced economies have found themselves in the grip of secular stagnation.
If donors keep giving only a little bit of help, but not enough to solve the problems of the poorest countries, these countries will never escape poverty's grip.
When its grip was loosened, any semblance of law and order disappeared.
We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990's taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.
DAKAR - Sub-Saharan African is in the grip of currency-union mania.
With this move, the military leaders are putting their sham vote aimed at tightening their repressive grip on power ahead of the well being of the Burmese people.
In the grip of two lost decades and counting, this could be Japan's last chance.
But continuing its purchases would tighten the government's grip.
STANFORD - This year has proven to be yet another replete with futile efforts to manage the outsize grip that banks and bankers have on the world economy.
Eritrea is in the grip of a repressive regime; and Libya has become a collapsed state.
Europe needs, first and foremost, to break the vicious circle of recession, unemployment, and austerity that now has it in its grip.
What kind of economic boom might stagnating Pakistan enjoy if patriarchy relaxed its grip?
Japan, for example, is in the grip of a growth crisis and public finance disaster - not the usual companions of an appreciating currency.
As China attempts to tighten its grip on Hong Kong, Li is showing independence, and China's new rulers - who, true to their communist roots, believe firmly in top-down control - do not like it one bit.
Others argue that China's government is simply losing its grip over local authorities.
We need to know why some forms of collective irrationality gain a stronger grip on us than others.

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