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engrasped

engrasped is the simple past and past participle of engrasp.

Meaning of engrasp

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

Questions about engrasped

What is engrasped the simple past and past participle of?
Engrasped is the simple past and past participle of engrasp.

Words near engrasped in the dictionary

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

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