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[grap-uhl]

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verb (used without object)

to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.

to use a grapple.

to seize another, or each other, in a firm grip, as in wrestling; clinch.

to engage in a struggle or close encounter (usually followed by with): He was grappling with a boy twice his size.

to try to overcome or deal (usually followed by with): to grapple with a problem.

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verb (used with object)

to seize, hold, or fasten with or as with a grapple.

to seize in a grip, take hold of: The thug grappled him around the neck.

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noun

a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.

a seizing or gripping.

10.

a grip or close hold in wrestling or hand-to-hand fighting.

11.

a close, hand-to-hand fight.

Origin:
1520–30; apparently a frequentative of Old English gegrǣppian to seize; associated with grapnel

Related forms

grap·pler, noun

in·ter·grap·ple, verb, -pled, -pling.

un·grap·pled, adjective

Synonyms
5. struggle, contend, wrestle, cope, tussle.

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As school districts nationwide grapple with severe budget cuts, one sport has weathered the recession better than most: football.

Admissions deans grapple with the promises and pitfalls of electronic recruiting.

The government is failing to grapple with terrorism.

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As school districts nationwide grapple with severe budget cuts, one sport has weathered the recession better than most: football.

Admissions deans grapple with the promises and pitfalls of electronic recruiting.

The government is failing to grapple with terrorism.

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Rather than grapple with awkward counter-evidence, the party tried to bury it.

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Efforts to end discrimination against minorities must grapple with the shifting landscape of how people understand racial bias.

As governments grapple with deficits, the landscape of higher education will change.

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Every opera company has to grapple now and then with withdrawals by important singers.

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Efforts are being made across the medical community to grapple with the language and ethics of hope.

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Many of today's start-ups have to grapple with logistical problems that used to be the preserve of large companies.

In so doing, however, it revealed how the state of the art fails to grapple with a simple fact:.

In meetings with managers and employees he must grapple with the struggling software maker's internal problems.

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Marriage arises again and again across diverse human societies, because all societies have to grapple with the same basic facts:.

Moreover, its army is well-equipped and fanatically geared up to grapple with any threat.

The proposals are a rational attempt to grapple with that.

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World English Dictionary

grapple (ˈɡræp^əl)

—vb (foll by with)
1.	to come to grips with (one or more persons), esp to struggle in hand-to-hand combat
2.	to cope or contend: to grapple with a financial problem
3.	(tr) to secure with a grapple

—n
4.	any form of hook or metal instrument by which something is secured, such as a grapnel
5.	a. the act of gripping or seizing, as in wrestling
	b. a grip or hold
6.	a contest of grappling, esp a wrestling match

[C16: from Old French grappelle a little hook, from grape hook; see grapnel]

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Word Origin & History

grapple

1295, from O.Fr. grapil "hook" (see grapnel). The verb is 1530, from the noun.

FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

GRAPPLE definition

GRAPh Processing LanguagE. 1968.
["A Directed Graph Representation for Computer Simulation of Belief Systems", L.G. Tesler et al, Math Biosciences 2:19-40 (1968)].

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