graspeth

Verb

grasp (third-person singular simple present grasps, present participle grasping, simple past and past participle grasped)

1. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
   • How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850...

   Synonyms:

   clasp

2. To understand.
   • I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.

   Synonyms:

   comprehend, fathom

3. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.

   Synonyms:

   jump at the chance, jump on

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