Grapples is valid Scrabble Word

Is grapples a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is grapples valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for GRAPPLES in dictionary:

VERB:

GRAPPLE, to struggle or contend
engage in a close fight or struggle without weapons; wrestle
seize hold of (someone)
struggle to deal with or overcome (a difficulty or challenge)
seize or hold with a grappling hook.

NOUN:

an act of grappling.
a wrestling match.
an instrument for seizing hold of something; a grappling hook.

Words related to GRAPPLES

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How to use GRAPPLES in a sentence

To the savage, I doubt not, the food he eats, the foes he grapples with, in dreams, are as real as any waking impressions.
Arriving on the spot, the grapples were thrown out and the tedious work of dragging the sea-bottom was begun.
He grapples with his subject, and moves, penetrates, and animates it by the electric force of his own feelings.
He enters it, grapples with the bear but is quickly recognized by the bear as Krishna himself.
She saw the man and horse at grapples, the yellow reach of road that lay between her and the canal, the canal itself, and the narrow bridge.
When he saw the two burning galleons bearing down upon them, they threw off the grapples and separated.
Captain Azevedo grappled the other galleon, and after fighting gallantly, the grapples were thrown off, whereupon both Dutch galleons took the opportunity to escape.
It will, however, soon be among things visible, for the missionary has his grapples out.
Beowulf descends to her home beneath the water, grapples with her in her cave, turns against her the weapons he finds there, and is again victorious.
The child visibly grapples with the difficulty, and is beaten.

And the way that it does so is this the oxygen grapples with the carbon, and the hydrogen drives the nitrogen out of your body.
No nation in the world grapples with its own evils so promptly as ours.
CHAPTER V DICK GRAPPLES IN THE DARK At last the meal was finished, this time without the help of the prowler.

Similar words containing GRAPPLE without suffix s

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