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US
/ˈɡɹæpəɫɪŋ, ˈɡɹæpɫɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈæplɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈæplɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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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 - the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
How To Use grappling In A Sentence
- They searched for his body, handlining with grappling hooks, setting gill nets straight offshore and hauling seine. AMAGANSETT
- I have caught plenty more on hook and line than they have noodling (they call it grappling around here), so I don't think it is something that we should be concerned with. What do you guys think about noodling? have you ever gone? or do you think its wrong?
- The students seemed to offer another option for an administration already grappling with sabo -- teurs in Iraq and suicide bombers in Israel: to sit back and wait for a second Iranian revolution. Firefight Over Iran
- Aggressive behaviors included pecking the male, bill snapping, reverse mounting, and frontal attack, which resulted in aerial grappling.
- Since plants suck up more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than anything else on the planet, understanding leaf veins is an important part of grappling with the global carbon budget puzzle.
- Towards the middle of the plain, there lay the bodies of several men who had fallen in the very act of grappling with the enemy; and there were seen countenances which still bore the stern expression of unextinguishable hate and defiance, hands which clasped the hilt of the broken falchion, or strove in vain to pluck the deadly arrow from the wound. The Monastery
- Apr. 30 -- Cass County health officials are grappling with a sharp rise in pertussis -- commonly known as whopping cough -- confirming five cases in the past six months, including one that resulted in death. EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News
- 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
- For better or worse, he became a master of the grand gesture, grappling with his inner demons and his outsize ego in front of a bemused public. Times, Sunday Times
- This blows by super-fast, but if you watch Hardison fight, he gets punched early, and after that he's mainly tying the guy up with his longer reach, kind of wrestle-grappling. LEVERAGE: The Second David Job
