abduct, broil, clinging, cut and thrust, fight a duel, grip, joust, put to, set to, tenure, war
Definitionn. a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding
Last update: July 4, 2015
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More than 31 countries currently grapple with a " chronic " water shortage. [verb]
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To-night we grapple for the heavy cable, eight tons to the mile. [verb]
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They encountered, grappled, and fell to the earth together. [verb]
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Heyward threw himself between the sisters and the foremost, whom he grappled with a desperate strength that for a moment checked his violence. [verb]
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Even in this deadly grapple the Saracen was saved by his agility and presence of mind. [verb]
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But for Jehane and her urgent affairs these two had grappled at Le Mans. [verb]
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Before they could grapple me, however, I succeeded in passing them, and taking to my heels, fled, much affrighted, towards the mills. [verb]
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Rochester flung me behind him: the lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled. [verb]
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You should not have yielded: you should have grappled with her at once, said Mr. [verb]
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How else can you grapple with the question. [Please select]
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In accordance with this scheme Pericles sought to educate the whole community to political wisdom by giving to all an active share in the government, and to train their aesthetic tastes by making accessible the best drama and music. It was most unfortunate that the Peloponnesian War ruined this great project by diverting the large supplies of money which were essential to it, and confronting the remodelled Athenian democracy, before it could dispense with his tutelage, with a series of intricate questions of foreign policy which, in view of its inexperience, it could hardly have been expected to grapple with successfully. [Please select]
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