GRASP
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grasp¹
- /ɡɹɑːsp/ UK
- /ɡɹæsp/ UK
- /ɡɹasp/ Northern England, Scotland
- /ɡɹæsp/ US
- /ɡɹæps/
Rhymes with -ɑːsp, -æsp
Where it comes from
From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), the same ultimate source as grab.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian grapsje (“to grab, grasp”), German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), German grapsen and grapschen, Old English grāpian ("to touch, feel, grasp"; > Modern English grope). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).
verb grasps · grasping · grasped · grasp
- To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand. How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?
- To understand. I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
- To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
Similar: grip, hold tight, beclasp, begrasp, begrip, belock, clench, clinch, cling, clutch, enclasp, fang
noun grasps · graps
- Grip. A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp.
- Understanding. There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.
- That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. The goal is within my grasp.
GRASP²
proper noun
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