Definitions for grapple

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grapple grap·ple

Spelling: [grap-uh l]

IPA: /ˈgræp əl/

Grapple is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in grapple (aeglppr).

Definitions for grapple

noun

1. a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
2. a seizing or gripping.
3. a grip or close hold in wrestling or hand-to-hand fighting.
4. a close, hand-to-hand fight.

verb (used with object)

1. to seize, hold, or fasten with or as with a grapple.
2. to seize in a grip, take hold of:

verb (used without object)

1. to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
2. to use a grapple.
3. to seize another, or each other, in a firm grip, as in wrestling; clinch.
4. to engage in a struggle or close encounter (usually followed by with):
5. to try to overcome or deal (usually followed by with):

Origin of grapple

1520-30; apparently a frequentative of Old English gegrǣppian to seize; associated with grapnel

Examples for grapple

Something that he could not repel since it had no substance he could grapple with.

The White House, however, does not grapple with the essentiality of good ground forces now.

He was much smaller than the other, but he knew that he was far and away stronger after that grapple.

To-night we grapple for the heavy cable, eight tons to the mile.

Instead it was to force him, and us, to grapple with the bigger question at the heart of the series.

There must be a power which can go behind these and grapple with causes.

I believe that there are evil acts, and I grapple with the idea of whether you can call people evil.

For the fourth year running, the ICA has had to grapple with the complexities of coordinating a group show.

What courage was requisite to grapple with this giant difficulty!

In Ferguson and many towns like it, majority African-American communities most grapple with mostly white county governments.