1 ~ (with sb/sth) to take a firm hold of sb/sth and struggle with them:
[V] Passers-by grappled with the man after the attack. * [VN] They managed to grapple him to the ground.
2 ~ (with sth) to try hard to find a solution to a problem:
[V] The new government has yet to grapple with the problem of air pollution. * [Vtoinf] I was grappling to find an answer to his question.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for grapple is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is grapple a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, grapple is tagged as verb.
Does grapple appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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