grab
grab is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
- transitive/intransitive verb. To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
- noun. A sudden grasp or seizure.
- noun. An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
- noun. the act of catching an object with the hands
"Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"
"he made a grab for the ball before it landed"
- noun. a mechanical device for gripping an object
- verb. capture the attention or imagination of
"This story will grab you"
"The movie seized my imagination"
- verb. take or grasp suddenly
"She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room"
- verb. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
"Catch the ball!"
"Grab the elevator door!"
- verb. make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand
"The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask"
- verb. get hold of or seize quickly and easily
"I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale"
- verb. obtain illegally or unscrupulously
"Grab power"
Synonyms
catch, snap, snatch, seize, snaffle
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in grab:
Common word forms
grabs, graben, grabbed, grabber, grabbing
Words from these letters
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