Definitions for grappling

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grappling grap·pling

Spelling: [grap-ling]

IPA: /ˈgræp lɪŋ/

Grappling is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in grappling (aggilnppr).

Definitions for grappling

noun

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

First recorded in 1590-1600; grapple + -ing¹

Examples for grappling

He paused again, grappling with this amazing revelation of self.

“grappling with life” and earnestly studying a profession then might have extinguished me.

When Booker assumed office, his half-a-million constituents were grappling with high unemployment and rampant poverty.

I love all the trappings of a classic heist plot: stopwatches and masks, grappling hooks and black turtlenecks.

You think of your wife, grappling with a kind of difficulty to which she is unaccustomed.

Two lines were thrown, each with a grappling hook on the end.

Given the daunting problems the city is grappling with—massive debt and a severe pension crisis—can you blame them?

Visibly an idea had visited him with which he was grappling.

We read Thomas Piketty because we needed to understand these failures to have any hope of grappling with them.

Now Europe is grappling with its worst fear—the threat of an Ebola outbreak.