Grappling is valid Scrabble Word

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

9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for GRAPPLING in dictionary:

VERB:

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:

the act of seizing hold of
an act of grappling.
a wrestling match.
an instrument for seizing hold of something; a grappling hook.
act of gripping or seizing, as in wrestling
A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.

A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to struggle or contend

Words related to GRAPPLING

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Words that contain GRAPPLING

How to use GRAPPLING in a sentence

The galleys, grappling together, presented a level arena, on which soldier and galley-slave fought hand to hand, and the fate of the engagement was generally decided by boarding.
He had lost his right hand by some accident, and supplied it with a grappling hook, which he wielded with a tolerable adroitness.
She found herself grappling with a new social riddle, and such surprises were always stimulating.
You can see them playing alleged polo at Malta, riding each other off at right angles and employing their sticks as grappling irons.
There are times when those ordinarily confident shrink back at the thought of grappling with the mighty issues that lie before them.
Very soon he was grappling manfully with the question.
We were grappling in darkness in the absence of the required guidance.
She found some difficulty in grappling with the situation, but she had no intention of turning her back upon it.
Then they grabbed them with some sort of invisible grappling beam or something and herded them toward the fifth ship.
It was clear that Benham was grappling with a crisis upon a basis of inadequate experience.

He found only three ships, and attacking and grappling with one of them, it was blown up because of a fire that unfortunately caught.
They howled at us as we drew near, and as the bows of the leading ships almost touched the piles, they hove grappling irons into them from above, holding them fast.
Through rain of falling javelins each ran forward, axe in hand, and cut the grappling lines as our Norsemen cheered them in wild praise.
Harry threw his grappling irons around her and took her in tow.
The conviction came that she was grappling with no slight feeling, but with that which really might mean life or death to him.
Before the coming of dawn, the entire fleet, with the exception of three small boats, had passed the forts and were grappling with the Confederate squadron above.
It would be waste words to describe here the varying fortunes of the grappling armies during the next few months.
She was in a small and pathetic way a kind of nineteenth century Job grappling with the old, old question given sin and, above all, pain and suffering to find God.
The sturdy oak-tree, with its tough roots grappling firmly underground, stubbornly faces the blast.
Those swimmers who reached the canal jumped in, swam across the 60 feet of water, and climbed the opposite bank by using grappling hooks.
They beset him on every side, clutching him, grappling with him like four wolves pulling down a deer.
As each English vessel ranged alongside it threw grappling irons into the enemy, who were thus held fast.
Ignorant who I was or whence I came, he feared and doubted, grappling with monstrous suspicions, which the fading light encouraged.
Miss Evelina was grappling with a hideous temptation.
He perceived, too, the hideous temptation with which she was grappling when she begged him to leave her.
Our hands are thick and hard from grappling with the rough savagery of our new rude continent.
But the English rowed for them, threw grappling irons into them, and gave them a turn that took them clear.
For he heard two men grappling and struggling silently together.
With a quick leap Hal was in the automobile, and was grappling with the German trooper.
At this point he returned to his picture, grappling with it afresh in a feverish pleasure.
It was not all magnetism, it was not all strength of purpose, it was his whole being grappling, striving, compelling, till inch by inch he gained a desperate victory.
He introduces his first finger in his mouth as if it were a grappling iron and extracts the black tobacco.

Similar words containing GRAPPL without suffix ing

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