engrasp

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verb

To grasp; to grip, to take hold of.

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Meanings

verbengrasp (third-person singular simple present engrasps, present participle engrasping, simple past and past participle engrasped)

present singular third person engrasps · participle present engrasping · participle past engrasped · past engrasped

  1. obsoleteTo 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 see

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From en- + grasp?

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

spanger
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APA

engrasp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engrasp

MLA

“engrasp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engrasp. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “engrasp,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engrasp.

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