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grasp
[ grasp, grahsp ]
verb (used with object)
- to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms:
- to seize upon; hold firmly.
- to get hold of mentally; comprehend; understand:
I don't grasp your meaning.
verb (used without object)
- to make an attempt to seize, or a motion of seizing, something (usually followed by at or for ):
a drowning man grasping at straws; to grasp for an enemy's rifle.
noun
- the act of grasping or gripping, as with the hands or arms:
to make a grasp at something.
- a hold or grip:
to have a firm grasp of a rope.
- one's arms or hands, in embracing or gripping:
He took her in his grasp.
- one's power of seizing and holding; reach:
to have a thing within one's grasp.
- hold, possession, or mastery:
to wrest power from the grasp of a usurper.
Synonyms:
- mental hold or capacity; power to understand.
Synonyms: , ,
- broad or thorough comprehension:
a good grasp of computer programming.
grasp
/ ɡɑː /
verb
- to grip (something) firmly with or as if with the hands
- whenintr, often foll by at to struggle, snatch, or grope (for)
- tr to understand, esp with effort
noun
- the act of grasping
- a grip or clasp, as of a hand
- the capacity to accomplish (esp in the phrase within one's grasp )
- total rule or possession
- understanding; comprehension
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
- ˈ貹, adjective
Other Word Forms
- a· adjective
- İ noun
- l adjective
- · verb (used with object)
- un·a· adjective
- ܲ· adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of grasp1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with grasp , also see get a fix on (grasp of) .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Still, Oliver’s work is as essential to his audience’s grasp on current events as “60 Minutes” is to journalism at large.
No one with a rudimentary grasp of how nation-states function in the 21st century could possibly entertain this notion.
Slot comes across as likeable, approachable and intelligent in interviews, although there were occasions in his early days when he struggled to grasp the local dialect.
He then fetched a lifebuoy and repeatedly threw a line to the struggling paddleboarders but none were able to grasp it.
And in the Simpsons neuron case, for example, it was just a subset of neurons in the medial temporal lobe that behaved with extreme specificity to enable patients to quickly grasp the relevant concept.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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