grip

grip
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noun
1 hold on sth
ADJECTIVE
firm, good, secure, solid (esp. AmE), strong, tight
crushing, death, iron, painful, vice-like/vise-like

Her upper arms were seized in an iron grip.

gentle, loose, weak
comfortable
VERB + GRIP
have

He still had a firm grip on my arm.

get, take

Taking a tight grip on the hook, he began to pull it closer.

keep

Keep a secure grip on the rope at all times.

lose

She slipped and lost her grip of the rope.

strengthen, tighten

Robert tightened his grip on her shoulder.

loose, loosen, relax, release, slacken
adjust, change, shift
GRIP + VERB
tighten

She felt his grip tighten painfully on her wrist.

loosen, relax, slacken

His grip slackened and she tore herself away.

PREPOSITION
in a/sb's grip

Hold the microphone in a firm grip.

She was powerless in his iron grip.

grip on

She relaxed her grip on the door frame.

PHRASES
break sb's grip

He finally broke her grip and escaped.

2 power/control
ADJECTIVE
firm, iron, powerful, strong, tight, vice-like/vise-like
tenuous

She has a tenuous grip on reality.

death, icy
VERB + GRIP
have

The Church does not have a strong grip on the population.

get, take

The government needs to get a grip on this problem.

Get a grip! (= take control of yourself, your life, etc.) (informal)

keep, maintain

We need to keep a tight grip on costs.

strengthen, tighten

They managed to strengthen their grip on the southern part of the country.

loosen
lose (informal)

Sometimes I feel I'm losing my grip (= losing control of my life, etc.)

PREPOSITION
in sth's grip

Winter still held them in its iron grip.

a country in the grip of recession

grip on

The government does not seem to have a very firm grip on the economy.

PHRASES
come to grips with sth, get to grips with sth (= to begin to take control of sth or understand sth difficult)

I'm slowly getting to grips with the language.

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verb
ADVERB
firmly, hard, tightly
gently, lightly, loosely
PREPOSITION
at

She gripped hard at the arms of her chair.

by

He gripped her gently by the shoulders.

Grip is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑fear, ↑fever, ↑hand, ↑panic, ↑paranoia
Grip is used with these nouns as the object: ↑arm, ↑audience, ↑bat, ↑edge, ↑handle, ↑imagination, ↑rail, ↑rein, ↑wheel, ↑wrist

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