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Grappling

//ˈɡɹæp(ə)lɪŋ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An act in which something is grappled or grappled with. gerund

    "[…] the Schoenberg is irresistible to young hearts in their initial grapplings with great questions of life, death, love and suffering."

  2. 2
    the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down wordnet
  3. 3
    A grappling hook or grappling iron.
  4. 4
    the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat wordnet
  5. 5
    A small anchor; a grapnel.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of grapple form-of, gerund, participle, present

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