2. Verb. (third-person singular of grasp) ¹
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Definition of Grasps
1. grasp [v] - See also: grasp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grasps
| grasp grasp all, lose all grasp at straws grasp reflex grasp the nettle graspable grasped grasper graspers grasping | grasping reflex graspingly graspingness graspingnesses graspless grasps (current term) graspt |
Literary usage of Grasps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... while the latter grasps in a broad, practical way at the substantial transactions
of men." Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concurring. (120 Ga. ..."
2. Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study in Survivals by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1922)
"... the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only
master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1867)
"It is also adjusted to prevent the dangerous swaying motion, and while it grasps
the cars so firmly together that a force of 7000 pounds cannot tear them ..."
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