Grasp
Grasp , transitive verb
[Old English graspen; prob. akin to LG. grupsen, or to English grope. Compare Grab, Grope.]
1.
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff.
2.
To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.
Grasp , intransitive verb
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.
Collocations (1)
To grasp at , to catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander grasped at universal empire,
Grasp , noun
1.
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
The grasps of love.
2.
Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.
3.
Forcible possession; hold.
The whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp.
4.
Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
The foremost minds of the next... era were not, in power of grasp, equal to their predecessors.
5.
The handle of a sword or of an oar.