grip
/ˈɡɹɪp/ verbo B2En español: agarrar, atenazar, empuñar, apoderarse de
- To take hold (of), particularly with the hand. · That suitcase is heavy, so grip the handle firmly.· Unfortunately the glue didn't grip, and the whole thing came apart.
- To figuratively take hold of or grasp. · We need to grip this problem, not shut our eyes and hope it goes away.
- Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon. · As the water level began to rise, I was gripped by panic.
- To firmly hold the attention of. · The movie gripped me from beginning to end.
He/she/it grips · Pasado gripped · Participio pasado gripped · Forma en -ing gripping
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- grip
- He/she/it
- grips
- Pasado
- gripped
- Participio pasado
- gripped
- Forma en -ing
- gripping
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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He had a solid grip of fact and a cool, clear, common-sense brain, which should take him some way in his profession.
Then either in cold blood or in the course of a struggle—Douglas may have gripped the hammer that was found upon the mat—he shot Douglas in this horrible way.
“But if you mean to hint that it could reflect in any way upon this lady’s honour”—his eyes blazed for an instant, and then with an evident effort he got a grip upon his own emotions—“well, you are on the wrong track, that’s all.”
“I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?”
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