grasp

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nounhold, grip
noununderstanding
verbgrab
verbunderstand

Synonyms for grasp

noun hold, grip

Antonyms for grasp

acquaintance

noun. knowledge of something through experience

acquaintances

noun. knowledge of something through experience

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., "to reach for, feel around," possibly a metathesis of grapsen, from Old English *græpsan "to touch, feel," from Proto-Germanic *grap-, *grab- (cf. East Frisian grapsen "to grasp," Middle Dutch grapen "to seize, grasp," Old English grapian "to touch, feel, grope"), from PIE root *ghrebh- (see grab). Sense of "seize" first recorded mid-16c. Figurative use from c.1600; of intellectual matters from 1680s. Related: Grasped; grasping. The noun is from 1560s.

Example Sentences forgrasp

His grasp did not bruise, it did not seem to be tight; but the hand that held it was immovable.

His grasp of details delighted Uncle Peter and surprised Coplen.

Haley had grasped him by the shoulder, and in his grasp the boy's strength was nothing.

No one will deny that the Buddhist, the Mahometan, the Confucianist, have their grasp of truth.

How will he despise what he can grasp, for the sake of the dim glory that eludes him!

He did not love his neighbor enough to grasp the facts of the case.

He leaped toward Garson—would have wrenched the pistol from the other's grasp.

He thrust it back into his pocket, but his hand retained its grasp of it.

Here, professor, throw off that coat and nglig manner, and grasp this spade.

As they grasp the hands held out to them they exclaim, "God bless you!"

grasp

Synonyms for grasp

Antonyms for grasp

acquaintance

acquaintances

acumen

appreciate

appreciated

grasp

Synonyms for grasp

Antonyms for grasp

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