Word Meanings - GRAPPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist. 2. To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly. The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops
Additional info about word: GRAPPLE
1. To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist. 2. To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly. The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRAPPLE)
- Contend
- Strive
- compete
- cope
- dispute
- vie
- contest
- struggle
- grapple
- argue
- maintain
- disagree
- wrangle
- Fasten
- Secure
- hold
- compact
- tie
- bind
- join
- unite
- affix
- annex
- attach
- fix
- Grasp
- Seize
- clasp
- retain
- comprehend
- catch
- grip
- clutch
- Catch
- grasp
- snatch
- apprehend
- arrest
- hook
- take
- capture
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRAPPLE)
- Release
- dismiss
- liberate
- free
- discharge
- expedite
- Liberate
- release
- emancipate
- Loosen
- betray
- surrender
- expose
- imperil
- endanger
- open
Related words: (words related to GRAPPLE)
- ANNEX
to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He - MAINTAIN
by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - AFFIX
figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to - AFFIXION
Affixture. T. Adams. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - CLASPER
1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side - SNATCH
1. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Pope. 2. To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven." Thomson. Syn. -- To - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - CONTESTABLE
Capable of being contested; debatable. - ARGUE
1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, - STRUGGLER
One who struggles. - GRASP
1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; - COMPACT
1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely - COMPACTIBLE
That may be compacted. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - SCATCH
A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey. - UNCOMPREHEND
To fail to comprehend. Daniel. - BEAUCATCHER
A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. - CONY-CATCH
To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak. - RECLASP
To clasp or unite again. - REDARGUE
To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, - ENGRAPPLE
To grapple. - WORD-CATCHER
One who cavils at words.