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engrasping

engrasping is the present participle and gerund 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 engrasping

What is engrasping the present participle and gerund of?
Engrasping is the present participle and gerund of engrasp.

Words near engrasping in the dictionary

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

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