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UK
/ɡɹˈæpəl/
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[ US /ˈɡɹæpəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹæpəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
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the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
they had a fierce wrestle
we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully - a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope
VERB
-
succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
We got by on just a gallon of gas -
to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
the two men grappled with each other for several minutes
How To Use grapple In A Sentence
- Can they grapple with the complex situation?
- Instead he has to head to the balcony's edge and use the grapple on the second floor railing.
- The children grappled for the ball.
- Aside from the showmanship, Ebersole will look to keep the fight moving as Hallman has a wrestling background and is known as a grappler. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
- In southern Florida, utility companies now grapple with monk parakeets and the massive, nettlesome nests they build atop transmission poles.
- They mobbed the visitors and grappled with them.
- Others grapple with questions of theory and practice. The Times Literary Supplement
- Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth. Apocrypha « BAHAY TALINHAGA
- It isn't always obvious who is supporting whom; the women grapple with their partners' bodies in ways we are used to the men doing with women -- and the grappling isn't obscured by all the prettifying tricks of classical ballet, part of whose magic is in the illusion of ease. Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions
- Kim argues that simply heaping more punishment onto bullies is an easy way out for a society that doesn't want to grapple with widespread homophobia. The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Palin Revives Death Panels; Boobs Against Breast Cancer; and the Anti-Gay Bullying Crisis