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grasp
English
Etymology
From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English gr?psan (“to touch, feel”), from Proto-Germanic *graipis?n?. Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????sp/
- (US) IPA(key): /??æsp/
- Rhymes: -æsp
Verb
grasp (third-person singular simple present grasps, present participle grasping, simple past and past participle grasped)
- To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
- To understand.
- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
- To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
Synonyms
- (grip): clasp, grip, hold tight; See also Thesaurus:grasp
- (understand): comprehend, fathom
- (take advantage): jump at the chance, jump on
Derived terms
- begrasp
- foregrasp
- grasp the nettle
Related terms
Translations
Noun
grasp (plural grasps)
- (sometimes figuratively) Grip.
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- Understanding.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 13:
- There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 13:
- That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
Translations
Anagrams
- ARPGs, sprag
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involve
English
Alternative forms
- envolve
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin involv?.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?v?lv/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?v?lv/
- Hyphenation: in?volve
Verb
involve (third-person singular simple present involves, present participle involving, simple past and past participle involved)
- (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
- Black vapors, issuing from the vent, involve the sky.
- To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses.
- (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II
- He knows / His end with mine involved.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II
- To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- 1728-1743, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
- The gathering number, as it moves along,
Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- The gathering number, as it moves along,
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve.
- 1728-1743, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
- To envelop, enfold, entangle.
- He's involved in the crime.
- To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
- How can we involve the audience more during the show?
- By getting involved in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
- (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
Synonyms
- imply
- include
- implicate
- complicate
- entangle
- embarrass
- overwhelm
Translations
See also
- involver
- voluble
- involute
References
- involve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Latin
Verb
involve
- second-person singular present active imperative of involv?
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