Grapple Synonyms and Antonyms

grăpəl
Fight hand to hand
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. clutch
  2. wrestle
  3. grip
  4. grasp
  5. contend
  6. seize
  7. engage
  8. clasp
  9. clench
  10. attack
  11. close
  12. claw
  13. grab
  14. cope
  15. get by
  16. make out
  17. grope
  18. make-do
  19. struggle
  20. deal
  21. manage
Antonyms:
  1. let-go
  2. release
Fasten
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hook
  2. scuffle
  3. catch
  4. tussle
  5. close
  6. wrestle
A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. clamshell

Words Related to Grapple

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Grapple Sentence Examples

  • Here we have to deal with a transformation with which we can grapple, and which can be controlled for our purposes.

  • More than 31 countries currently grapple with a " chronic " water shortage.

  • Origen thus solved, after his own fashion, a problem which his predecessor Clement had not even ventured to grapple with.

  • One grapple brought up the wooden kelson of a working boat, complete with mast sockets.

  • This shows that the principle of the dissipation of energy has control over the actions of those agents only whose faculties are too gross to enable them to grapple individually with the minute portions of matter which are the seat of energy.

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