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.