Grapple

Definition: Grapple

Grapple

Noun

1. A tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope.

2. A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.

3. The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully".

Verb

1. Come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day".

2. To grip or seize, as in a wrestling match; "the two men grappled with each other for several minutes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "grapple" was first used: 1295. (references)

Computing

Mining

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GRAPPLE

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Synonyms: Grapple

Contention

Contend; with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush; n. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at; oppose; reluct.

Difficulty

Meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage; be in difficulty; Adjective:

Inquiry

Question, demand; put the question, pop the question, propose the question, propound the question, moot the question, start the question, raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put forth the question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go into a question.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Opposition

Stem, breast, encounter; stem the tide, breast the tide, stem the current, stem the flood; buffet the waves; beat up against, make head against; grapple with; kick against the pricks; (resist); contend; do battle; (warfare) -with, do battle against.

Resistance

Breast the wave, breast the current; stem the tide, stem the torrent; face, confront, grapple with; show a bold front; (courage); present a front; make a stand, take one's stand.

Taking

Get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.

Crosswords: Grapple

Books

• 6800 Debugging Program Grapple, Mc (reference)

• A Grapple A Day (reference)

• God Gave Us the Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple With Feminism (reference)

• How to grapple with the pineapple : from planting pineapple tops to baking upside-down cakes (reference)

• The Grapple (The Labor Movement in Fiction and Non-Fiction) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Kenya

However, the banking sector continues to grapple with the problem of non-performing loans, which now account for about 41% of the total loan portfolio. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "grapple": Death grapple ♦ Grapple plant ♦ Grapple shot ♦ grapple with ♦ grapple with a problem ♦ grapple with smth. ♦ grapple with the question ♦ To grapple with. Additional references.

Beginning with "grapple": grapple-crazy, grapple-hooked.

Ending with "grapple": mid-grapple.

Afrikaans

vat (captivate, capture, catch, get, lay, lay hold of, pick, pick up, start off, take), vang (captivate, capture, catch), beetvat (captivate, capture, catch), beetvak (clutch), beetpak (captivate, capture, catch, clutch), beetneem (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, fool, hoax, mystify, take, take in, trick), beetkry (captivate, capture, catch), beetgryp (captivate, capture, catch, clutch). (various references)

Albanian

kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلاب (clamp, dog, grab, grapnel, hook), ‏قبض على (apprehend, capture, catch, clasp, clutch, grab, grasp, grip, hold, seize upon, take hold of), ‏حكم ربط, ‏تصارع (tussle, wrestle), ‏صارع (fool smb. out of smth., scrabble about, struggle, war, wrestle), ‏أوثق (bind, bond, fasten, moor, pinion), ‏ثبت مركب بمرساة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

счепкване (bout, mix in, muss, scrap, squabble), счепквам се (scrap), улавям (catch, catch out, clutch, detect, entrap, get, grasp, grip, gripe, mesh, pick up), сграбчвам (catch hold of, clutch, grab, grasp, hog, lay hold of, nab, nip, seize, snatch, swoop), хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grasp, grip, gripe, hook, hunt down, land, nail, nip, nobble, pick up, pot, prey upon, run down, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down), кука (clevis, crook, gab, holdfast, hook), грайфер, закрепявам се, закачам се (grip, hang oneself, lark, rot, snag), боря се (antagonize, contend, fight, militate, reluct, scramble, struggle, tussle, wrestle), борба (battle, combat, conflict, contest, ding-dong, fight, fighting, strife, striving, struggle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling). (various references)

Chinese 

揪�" (Grappled, grappling). (various references)

Czech

zaháknout (hook), zápasit (agonize, contend, fight, struggle, wrestle), hákovací kotvice. (various references)

Danish

fange (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

Dutch

pakken (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, get, lay hold of, pack, package, pick up, take, wrap up), beetpakken (clutch, grasp), beetnemen (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, fool, hoax, mystify, take in, trick). (various references)

Esperanto

kapti (capture, catch), ekteni (clutch). (various references)

Faeroese

handbera (captivate, capture, catch), fanga (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

Farsi 

چنگ (Claw, Clutch, Grip, Gripe, Nail, Sackbut, Uncus), قلاب (Buckle, Clasp, Crampon, Creel, Frog, Hank, Hook, Link, Pennant, Tach, Uncus), گلاویزی , گلاویزشدن (Wrestle), دست بگریبانی , دست بگریبان شدن (Wrestle). (various references)

Finnish

pyydystää (captivate, capture, catch, snare, trap), painiskella (struggle, wrestle). (various references)

French

capturer, attraper. (various references)

Frisian

fange (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

German

ringen (contort, fight, grappling, struggle, twist, war, wrestle, wrestling, wring), packen (bundle, catch, clench, enthrall, go about, grab, grasp, grip, gripe, heap, make up, manage, pack, pack up, package, packing, pile, seize, stack, Stow, thrill, to pack, wrap up), kämpfen (attack, battle, brawl, campaign, combat, contend, fight, fray, push, skirmish, strive, struggle, to battle, to brawl, to combat, to fight, to tussle, tussle), festhaken (hook up), fassen (apprehend, bite, captivate, capture, catch, contain, draw, express, feel, frame, gather, gather in, get, grab, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, lay hold of, make, Mount, mounting, pass, pick up, seize, set, subsume, surround, take, take hold of, to subsume, touch, understand), fangen (bag, captivate, capture, catch, cope, entrap, net, snare, tag, take, to catch, to trap, trap, trick), erwischen (captivate, capture, catch, cop, cope, get, get hold of, make, nab, to get hold of), ertappen (captivate, capture, catch, trap), ergreifen (adopt, affect, agitate, apprehend, captivate, capture, catch, catch at, clasp, clutch, embrace, grab, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, move, overcome, resort to, seize, take up, to catch hold of, to take hold of), erbeuten (achieve, acquire, attain, captivate, capture, carry off, catch, get, get away with, obtain, pillage, prey on), anpacken (grab, handle, set about, tackle, take hold of). (various references)

Greek 

πιάσιμο (bite, fastening, grasp, grip, hold), πάλη (battle, bout, combat, conflict, fight, match, strife, struggle, tussle, wrestle, wrestling), παλεύω (contend with, contest, fight, grapple with, wrestle), παλαίω (cope, struggle, tussle, wrestle), αρπάζω (catch, clutch, grab, grasp, gripe, nab, poach, rape, ravish, rifle, scrounge, seize, snap, snatch, spoil, tear from), αρπάζομαι, αρπαγή (depredation, grapnel, grasp, kidnapping, plunder, predation, rapine, ravishment, robbery, seizure, snatch, swoop), δραστηριοποιούμαι (bestir oneself). (various references)

Hawaiian

kap (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תחבט בבעי�" (grapple with a problem). (various references)

Hungarian

megfog (captivate, capture, catch, grasp, lay hold of, palm, seize, seize on, taken, to clinch, to clutch, to corral, to entrap, to gaff, to grasp, to pin, to seize on, to take, took), kihorgonyzás, horog (clench, crotchet, fish hook, fish-hook, gaff, grappling iron, hanger, hitch, hook), horgony (anchor, grab, grapnel, grappling iron, grappling-iron), fogó (clamp, extractor, forceps, grasping, gripping, handhold, handle, holder, it, nippers, pair of forceps, pliers, prehensile, tagger, to be `it`, to be it, tongs), csipesz (clip, forceps, nipper, nippers, pair of forceps, pincers, pinchers, pliers, protractor, tweezers). (various references)

Indonesian

memegang erat. (various references)

Italian

prendere (assume, be taken, buy, captivate, capture, catch, charge, earn, employ, engage, fetch, gather, get, grasp, grip, have, lay, lay hold of, pick up, seize, subsume, take, take along, to take). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取っ組み合い (scuffle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とっくみあい (scuffle). (various references)

Korean 

격투하십시�". (various references)

Malay

tangkap (captivate, capture, catch), menangkap (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

Manx

strepey (exert, exertion, flounder, strive, struggle, tug, tussle, wallow), clep (boathook, gaff, grapnel). (various references)

Norwegian

gripe (captivate, capture, catch, grab, grasp, grip), fange (captivate, capture, catch, convict). (various references)

Papiamen

kèch (captivate, capture, catch, realize, understand), fangu (captivate, capture, catch), fango (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

Pig Latin

applegray.(various references)

Polish

chwytać (captivate, capture, catch), łapać (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

Portuguese

garra (chela, clamshell, clutch, fingernail, grab, grip, nail, nipper, paw, pawl, prong, talon), capturar (arrest, capture, carry, catch, collar, get hold of, prize, seize), agarramento (gripe), agarrar (capture, catch, clasp, cling, clutch, get hold of, grab, grabble, grasp, gripe, hold, lay hands on, seize, twitch), apanhar (bag, capture, catch, cop, gather, get a beating, grab, nab, pick, pick off, pick up, reach for, rustle, seize, shovel, snatch, strike, swoop, take, take a beating, take up), aprisionar (capture, catch, confine, constrain, gaol, imprison, jail), arpear, arp�u (grappling iron, harpoon), abordar (accost, approach, assault, board, broach), briga (affray, bicker, close, fight, fray, gale, melee, noise, ruffle, scuffle, strife, struggle, wrangle), segurar (assure, attach, bolster, clamp, cling, clip, ensure, guy, hang onto, hitch, hold, hold back, indemnify, insure, pillar, pin, secure, seize, sustain, take, take up, underset, unrein, uphold), combate corpo a corpo (hand-to-hand fighting), engalfinhar-se (wrestle), luta (action, assault, brush, campaign, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, scuffle, set-to, strife, struggle, tussle, war, wrestling), lutar (battle, buffet, combat, conflict, contend, contest, fight, lute, militate, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, strike, strive, struggle, tug, vie, wrestle), passar a vias de fato, prender (apprehend, arrest, attract, bind, bond, cage, capture, clip, confine, coop, cop, detain, drop behind, embay, fasten, gaol, gift, handsel, hoop, immobilize, incarcerate, jail, jug, kennel, knit, lag, link, lock in, mew, nab, pin, prison, quod, run in, secure, seize, shut, snaffle-bit, take, take up), atracar (moor). (various references)

Romanian

se lupta (combat, contend, exchange blows, fight, scramble, struggle), prinde cu un cârlig (hook), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), luptã corp la corp (close fight, handgrip, wrestle), captura (captivate, capture, carry the prize, catch, grab, land, seize, take), cârlig (clamp, clasp, crook, crotchet, Fang, grapnel, hanger, harpoon, hook, peg, staple), arunca cangea unei corãbii, apuca (apprehend, captivate, capture, catch, clutch, comprehend, experience, grab, grasp, grip, gripe, nab, nip, pull up, seize, snap, snatch, take), agãţa (accost, attach, clench, hang, hook, importune, suspend), încãierare (brush, fray, melee, rough and tumble, rout, row, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, skirmish, tussle, wrestle). (various references)

Russian 

схватка (bout, run across, run-in, scramble, skirmish), схватиться, схватить (capture, catch, clutch, get, get hold of, gripe, nab, nail, nip, seize, snap up, snatch, tackle), сцепиться, крюк (crook, gab, grapnel, grappling iron, hook, piton, rocking-turn), кошка (cat, cat-o'-nine-tails, cat-o-nine-tails, grapnel, grappling iron, moggy, pussy cat, pussycat, pussy-cat), зацеплять (engage, grappling, mesh, pitch), бороться (antagonize, conflict, contend, cope, fight, militate, oppugn, strive, struggle, struggled, struggles, struggling, tussle, wrestle), дрек (grapnel, grappling iron). (various references)

Scottish

glac (captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, hollow, seize, take, valley; hollow of the hand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rvati se (wrestle), malo sidro (grapnel, grappling iron), čaklja (grapnel, grappling iron). (various references)

Spanish

asir (captivate, capture, catch, catch at, catch in, catch up, clench, clutch, grab, grasp, grip, seize, snatch, tackle, take, touch), agarrar (catch, catch hold of, clench, clutch, get, get hold of, grab, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hold, hold tight, lay hold of, lift, nail, pack, pinch, seize, snatch up, tackle, take, take on, touch), coger (accept, arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clutch, cop, develop, fetch, frig, gather, get, get hold of, go down, grab, grasp, grip, hit off, hold, hook, hunch, imbibe, land, lay hold of, lift, nab, nail, nobble, pick, pick up, pinch, pluck, seize, take, take on, take out, take up, toss, touch, treat, trip, trip up, yank off). (various references)

Sranan

fanga (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

Swedish

ge sig i kast med, dust (bout, clash, tussle). (various references)

Turkish

göğüs göğüse savaş (close combat, close fight), yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, entrap, get hold of, grab, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nobble, overtake, pinch, pull up to, seize, seize on, snap up, snatch, tackle, take, take up, trap), uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, get at, go in for, groove, haze, labor, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, tackle, toil, try hard, tug, tussle, work away, work hard, wrestle), tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), sarılma (clasp, convolution, cuddle, cuddling, embrace, hug, hugging, twine), kanca ile tutunmak, kanca (barb, catch, crampiron, crook, grapnel, grappling hook, grappling iron, holdfast, hook), filika demiri kullanmak, filika demiri (grapnel, grappling hook, grappling iron), boğuşmak (be at each other's throat, buffet, romp, scuffle, struggle, wrestle), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), çengel (cedilla, grapnel, grappling hook, grappling iron, hanger, holdfast, hook). (various references)

Ukrainian

зачепитися, боротьба (battle, campaign, combat, debate, effort, fight, fighting, strife, struggle, tussle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), боротися (antagonize, battle, buffet, champion, combat, contend, debate, fight, militate, oppugn, strive, struggle, take on, tussle, wrestle), дрек. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự níu lấy (grasp). (various references)

Welsh

dal (arrest, capture, catch, continue, hold, last), crapio (pick up), caffio (snatch), bachwr (hooker), bachu (bend, hook, skulk). (various references)

Yucatec

chukik (captivate, capture, catch). (various references)

capere. (various references)

grapil. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "grapple": grappled, grappler, grapplers, grapples. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Grapple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: graaple, graple, Groppel, gropple, rapple. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lapper, rappel.

-2 letters: appel, apple, argle, gaper, glare, grape, lager, large, pager, paler, paper, parge, parle, pearl, pepla, plage, regal.

-3 letters: ager, aper, earl, egal, gale, gape, gear, leap, lear, page, pale, palp, pare, peag, peal, pear, perp, plea, prep, rage, rale, rape, real, reap, repp.

-4 letters: age, ale, alp, ape, are, ear, era.

+1 letter: grappled, grappler, grapples.

+2 letters: grapplers, lappering, papergirl, propagule, rappeling.

+3 letters: appareling, glasspaper, papergirls, paraplegia, paraplegic, preplacing, propagable, propagules, rappelling, reapplying.

+4 letters: apparelling, gallinipper, glasspapers, overlapping, paleography, paraplegias, paraplegics, polygrapher, preplanning, preplanting.

+5 letters: doppelganger, epigraphical, gallinippers, glasspapered, interlapping, livetrapping, paleographer, paleographic, papyrologies, phlebography, polygraphers, repopulating, sparkplugged, underlapping, wallpapering.