Grappled is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRAPPLED 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 GRAPPLED

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How to use GRAPPLED in a sentence

• He essayed to sling her across his shoulder, but she grappled with him, tearing and scratching at his face.
• The fire ship in its place at the head of the line soon met the largest ship, and instantly grappled itself firmly to her side.
• To the soul of Starkad reverence for Frode was grappled with hooks of love.
• In these hints I began with my third volume, then proceeded to my second, and last of all grappled with the first.
• For when skilfully she led the talk on his plans, she hunted down elusive problems, grappled with them, and offered him the solutions of a sure instinct.
• Meanwhile, Lawrence and Lambourne rolled on the floor of the apartment, closely grappled together.
• The Dutch were confident, when they were aware of the dash of the Spaniards, that our men would board their ships when they grappled.
• Those two burning vessels bore down upon that of the Dutch admiral, with whom Pedro de Heredia had grappled, and whom he had already defeated and most of whose crew he had killed.
• Where the two men grappled, the parapet of the Embankment opens on a flight of river-stairs.
• Soon the ships of both fleets were closely grappled together in a fierce hand-to-hand fight which lasted until after nightfall.
• He threw it to the end of the room and grappled with her.
• So the nation, still sympathizing with slavery, still playing with a coal of fire, grappled with the monster, feeling itself powerful to crush it in a few short months.
• How he grappled with and settled the question will be seen in the ensuing debates.
• He fell, and was grappled on the deck by the man he had first wounded, a powerful fellow, who got uppermost and raised a bayonet to thrust through Broke.
• The divers grappled each other in an octopuslike duel.
• I struck out, encountered something warm and breathing, and grappled with it in the darkness.
• The battle was in no sense a grand whole, but a series of separate combats in which the galleys grappled and the soldiers and sailors boarded and fought hand to hand.
• Bob grabbed the man, grappled with him in the pitch dark, and choked him into unconsciousness, Dicky lending a hand.
• It was by the same hooks of steel that Stonewall Jackson grappled the hearts of the Second Army Corps to his own.
• They then grappled with the great theme in earnest.
• He cleverly tripped one of the watchmen and grappled with the other in such a way that the officer could not use his sword arm.
• The force of uncontrollable desire grappled with her pity.
• Moreover, our enemies ran in and grappled us just forward of her quarter, where she carried a movable panel in her bulwarks to give access to an accommodation ladder.
• One particularly, in 1854, grappled frankly with the problem of emigration.

Similar words containing GRAPPL without suffix ed

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