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engrasp

engrasp verb: to grasp; to grip, to take hold of.

Verb

engrasp (third-person singular simple present engrasps, present participle engrasping, simple past and past participle engrasped)

  1. (obsolete) To grasp; to grip, to take hold of.
    • Now gan Pyrochles wex as wood as hee,
      And him affronted with impatient might :
      So both together fiers engrasped bee ,
      Whiles Guyon standing by their uncouth strife does see1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of engrasp

third-person singular presentengrasps
present participleengrasping
past participleengrasped
pastengrasped

Origin of engrasp

From en- + grasp?

Questions about engrasp

What does engrasp mean?
Engrasp means to grasp; to grip, to take hold of.
What part of speech is engrasp?
Engrasp is a verb.
What is the past tense of engrasp?
The past tense of engrasp is engrasped.

Words near engrasp in the dictionary

  1. engraphically
  2. engrapple
  3. engrappled
  4. engrapples
  5. engrappling
  6. engrasp
  7. engrasped
  8. engrasping
  9. engrasps
  10. engraulid
  11. engraulidid

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