Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To seize with a grasping hold; hold fast by inclosing or embracing; grip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To grasp; to grip.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
grasp ; togrip .
Etymologies
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en- + grasp?
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Examples
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Wall Street would like nothing better than to make social security their own personal piggy bank, just as they now engrasp the FED.
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