Word Meanings - GRASP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: 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; to comprehend.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRASP)

• Attain
• Reach
• extend
• master
• arrive at
• compass
• earn
• win
• achieve
• accomplish
• get
• obtain
• acquire
• gain
• secure
• grasp
• Clasp
• Grasp
• connect
• unite
• bracket
• concatenate
• embrace
• Clutch Grasp
• grab
• seize
• catch
• grip
• grapple with
• snatch
• pounce
• Comprehend
• Comprise
• embody
• understand
• conceive
• apprehend
• enclose
• include
• involve
• Gripe
• clutch
• gnaw
• pain
• squeeze
• screw
• pinch
• lay hold of

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRASP)

• Liberate
• release
• emancipate
• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• dismiss
• liberate
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue
• Exclude
• except
• bar
• omit
• reject
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• free

Related words: (words related to GRASP)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• POUNCED
  1. Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. Thomson. 2. Ornamented with perforations or dots. "Gilt bowls pounced and pierced." Holinshed.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• ATTAIN
  atteindre, fr. L. attingere; ad + tangere to touch, reach. See 1. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson. 3. To get
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• 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
• ACCOMPLISHED
  1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
• 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
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.