grasp
/ɡɹæsp/ verb C1- To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
- To understand. · I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
- To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
Plural grasp · He/she/it grasps · Past grasped · Past participle grasped · -ing form grasping
Verb forms
- Base form
- grasp
- He/she/it
- grasps
- Past
- grasped
- Past participle
- grasped
- -ing form
- grasping
From the library
Mercédès looked pleased and gratified, while Fernand grasped the handle of his knife with a convulsive clutch.
“Be silent, you simpleton!” cried Danglars, grasping him by the arm, “or I will not answer even for your own safety.
He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.
He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher.
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