Dictionary Entry
grasp
grasp is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
- 2transitive verb
To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.
- 3intransitive verb
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
- 4noun
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
- 5noun
Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.
- 6noun
Forcible possession; hold.
- 7noun
Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
- 8noun
The handle of a sword or of an oar.
- 9noun
the act of grasping
"he released his clasp on my arm"
"he has a strong grip for an old man"
- 10noun
an intellectual hold or understanding
"a good grip on French history"
"they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities"
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- 11noun
the limit of capability
"within the compass of education"
- 12noun
understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
"he has a good grasp of accounting practices"
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- 13verb
get the meaning of something
"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
- 14verb
hold firmly
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