grasp

grasp
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noun
1 holding sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ firm, tight (esp. AmE)
▪

She felt a firm grasp on her hand.

VERB + GRASP
▪ slip from
▪

As she jumped forward, the ball slipped from her grasp.

▪ escape, slip out of (usually figurative)
▪

He slipped out of our grasp (= he escaped).

▪ prise sth from (BrE), pry sth from (esp. AmE), rip sth from, snatch sth from, wrench sth from, wrest sth from
▪

She wrenched the bottle from his grasp.

▪ tighten (esp. AmE)
PREPOSITION
▪ beyond your grasp
▪

The key was on a high shelf, just beyond her grasp.

▪ in your grasp
▪

He kept the letter firmly in his grasp.

▪ from sb's grasp
▪

The robber tried to free the case from her grasp.

▪ out of sb's grasp
▪

She kicked the gun out of his grasp.

▪ within (your) grasp (often figurative)
▪

Just when victory seemed within grasp, the referee blew his whistle.

2 understanding
ADJECTIVE
▪ firm, good, impressive, solid, strong
▪ feeble, limited, poor, shaky, tenuous
▪ intellectual
▪

The task was beyond the intellectual grasp of some of the students.

▪ intuitive
▪

We have no intuitive grasp of the immensity of time.

VERB + GRASP
▪ have
▪ get
▪

Working with native speakers helped me get a good grasp of the language.

PREPOSITION
▪ beyond sb's grasp
▪

These ideas are all beyond his grasp.

▪ within sb's grasp
▪ grasp of
▪

a poor grasp of mathematics

{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}
verb
1 take hold of sb/sth suddenly and firmly
ADVERB
▪ firmly, tightly
PREPOSITION
▪ at
▪

Her hands were grasping at his coat.

▪ by
▪

She grasped him tightly by the wrist.

PHRASES
▪ grasp hold of sb/sth
▪

She grasped hold of the banister to support herself.

2 understand sth
ADVERB
▪ fully
▪

He had not fully grasped the fact that he was the one who would pay for all this.

▪ not quite, not really
▪

I hadn't really grasped what they were talking about.

▪ quickly
▪ easily, readily
▪

a means by which students can more easily grasp the basics of science

VERB + GRASP
▪ try to
▪ be unable to, fail to
▪

She failed to grasp the significance of these facts.

▪ quick to
▪

He was quick to grasp the basic principles.

▪ be difficult to, be hard to
▪

Some of these concepts are very difficult to grasp.

Grasp is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑hand
Grasp is used with these nouns as the object: ↑arm, ↑basics, ↑chance, ↑complexity, ↑concept, ↑edge, ↑elbow, ↑end, ↑enormity, ↑essence, ↑essentials, ↑fact, ↑fundamentals, ↑hand, ↑handle, ↑hold, ↑implication, ↑importance, ↑intricacy, ↑magnitude, ↑meaning, ↑opportunity, ↑rail, ↑reality, ↑rein, ↑seriousness, ↑significance, ↑situation, ↑subtlety, ↑truth, ↑wrist

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