grapple / ˈgræp əl /

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grapple3 个定义

v. 无主动词 verb

grap·pled, grap·pling.

  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.
v. 有主动词 verb

grap·pled, grap·pling.

  1. to seize, hold, or fasten with or as with a grapple.
  2. to seize in a grip, take hold of: The thug grappled him around the neck.
n. 名词 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.

grapple 近义词

v. 动词 verb

grab, wrestle

更多grapple例句

  1. In hindsight, like many who suffer from eating disorders, it was a misguided and desperate grapple for control at a time when the great themes of my life were in chaos.
  2. The White House, however, does not grapple with the essentiality of good ground forces now.
  3. In Ferguson and many towns like it, majority African-American communities most grapple with mostly white county governments.
  4. I believe that there are evil acts, and I grapple with the idea of whether you can call people evil.
  5. The slice of society he depicts is narrow, but its denizens grapple with the universal basics: family, mortality, love, ambition.
  6. For the fourth year running, the ICA has had to grapple with the complexities of coordinating a group show.
  7. We are of course in a peculiarly difficult position to grapple with this problem through lack of contemporary evidence.
  8. At the moment he felt as if he could grapple the brute in bare hands and come off victor; and if otherwise—what matter?
  9. A year before, their third cable had broken in mid-ocean, and it was now proposed to "grapple" for it.
  10. We hope it will go on and agreeably grapple with the people in its own district whatever may become of the Jews.
  11. Gilliatt was sufficiently familiar with marine rocks to grapple in earnest with the Douvres.