grapple 的 3 个定义
grap·pled, grap·pling.
- to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
- to use a grapple.
- to seize another, or each other, in a firm grip, as in wrestling; clinch.
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grap·pled, grap·pling.
- to seize, hold, or fasten with or as with a grapple.
- to seize in a grip, take hold of: The thug grappled him around the neck.
- a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
- a seizing or gripping.
- a grip or close hold in wrestling or hand-to-hand fighting.
- a close, hand-to-hand fight.
grapple 近义词
grab, wrestle
更多grapple例句
- 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.
- The White House, however, does not grapple with the essentiality of good ground forces now.
- In Ferguson and many towns like it, majority African-American communities most grapple with mostly white county governments.
- I believe that there are evil acts, and I grapple with the idea of whether you can call people evil.
- The slice of society he depicts is narrow, but its denizens grapple with the universal basics: family, mortality, love, ambition.
- For the fourth year running, the ICA has had to grapple with the complexities of coordinating a group show.
- We are of course in a peculiarly difficult position to grapple with this problem through lack of contemporary evidence.
- At the moment he felt as if he could grapple the brute in bare hands and come off victor; and if otherwise—what matter?
- A year before, their third cable had broken in mid-ocean, and it was now proposed to "grapple" for it.
- We hope it will go on and agreeably grapple with the people in its own district whatever may become of the Jews.
- Gilliatt was sufficiently familiar with marine rocks to grapple in earnest with the Douvres.