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the act or manner of holding
- was simply unable to break my opponent's viselike grapple and lost the wrestling match
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an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another
- after a grapple with his conscience, he confessed to having an affair
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to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery
- two sumo wrestlers grappling like a pair of mammoth bears
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to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly
- a crane grappled the sunken boat and hoisted it above water
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