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Word entry · 5 letters

grasp

Best crossword clue

"Firm hold"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ɡɹɑːsp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted agprsStarts with GEnds with P1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. get the meaning of something

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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?
  • I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
  • A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp.

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