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come to grips with

come to grips with verb: to confront or deal with directly; to commence a confrontation.

Verb

come to grips with (third-person singular simple present comes to grips with, present participle coming to grips with, simple past came to grips with, past participle come to grips with)

  1. (idiomatic) To confront or deal with directly; to commence a confrontation.
    • Until she comes to grips with her mother's death, she has no hope of putting it behind her.
    • On Thursday, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, put the sale of the company’s “noncore” channels, including ABC and FX, on the table. He called the decline in traditional television “a reality we have to come to grips with.”2023 July 15, Brooks Barnes, quoting Robert A. Iger, “In Hollywood, the Strikes Are Just Part of the Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

come to grips with meaning in Malayalam

come to grips with in Malayalam

cope with, deal with, handle
നേരിട്ടു കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക, വിജയപൂർവ്വം നേരിടുക, വേണ്ടരീതിയിൽ കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക, വ്യവഹരിക്കുക, പെരുമാറുക, വശമാക്കുക

Forms of come to grips with

third-person singular presentcomes to grips with
present participlecoming to grips with
pastcame to grips with
past participlecome to grips with

Questions about come to grips with

What does come to grips with mean?
Come to grips with means to confront or deal with directly; to commence a confrontation.
What is come to grips with in Malayalam?
Come to grips with in Malayalam is നേരിട്ടു കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക, വിജയപൂർവ്വം നേരിടുക, വേണ്ടരീതിയിൽ കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക. See Come to grips with meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is come to grips with?
Come to grips with is a verb.
What is the past tense of come to grips with?
The past tense of come to grips with is came to grips with.

Words near come to grips with in the dictionary

  1. come to blows
  2. come to find out
  3. come to fruition
  4. come to grief
  5. come to grips
  6. come to grips with
  7. come to hand
  8. come to Jesus
  9. come to life
  10. come to light
  11. come to mention it

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: come to grips with (page history and authors); come to grips with (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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