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ingrapple

ingrapple verb: to seize, clutch, or grapple.

Verb

ingrapple (third-person singular simple present ingrapples, present participle ingrappling, simple past and past participle ingrappled)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) To seize, clutch, or grapple.
    • There ſhall young Hotspur, with a fury led, Ingrapple with thy ſonne, as fierce as hee1595, Samuel Daniel, Civile Wares
    • Looke how two Lyons fierce, both hungry, both pursue
      One sweet and selfe-same prey, at one another flie,
      And with their armed pawes ingrappled dreadfully,1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 12 p. 201

Forms of ingrapple

third-person singular presentingrapples
present participleingrappling
past participleingrappled
pastingrappled

Questions about ingrapple

What does ingrapple mean?
Ingrapple means to seize, clutch, or grapple.
What part of speech is ingrapple?
Ingrapple is a verb.
What is the past tense of ingrapple?
The past tense of ingrapple is ingrappled.

Words near ingrapple in the dictionary

  1. ingrandized
  2. ingrandizes
  3. ingrandizing
  4. Ingrao
  5. Ingraos
  6. ingrapple
  7. ingrappled
  8. ingrapples
  9. ingrappling
  10. Ingrassia
  11. Ingrassias

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