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Grappling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See grapple.

n. Nautical See grapnel.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of grapple.

n. An act in which something is grappled or grappled with

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.

n. A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. That by which anything is seized and held; a grapnel.

n. An anchorage.

n. A lernæan parasite of the menhaden: so called from having the shape of a grappling-iron.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat

n. the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

Word Usage

"'Stonor's too content just to criticize, just to make his delicate pungent fun of the men who are grappling -- very inadequately of course -- still _grappling_ with the big questions."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

struggle

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

grapple

Verb Stem

grapple

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

sapling