Usually means: Struggling using holds and leverage.
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  1. grappling: Merriam-Webster
  2. grappling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grappling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grappling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grappling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grappling, grappling: Wordnik
  7. grappling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grappling: Wiktionary
  9. grappling: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Grappling, grappling: Dictionary.com
  11. grappling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Grappling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Grappling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. grappling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. grappling: Rhymezone
  16. Grappling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. grappling: FreeDictionary.org
  18. grappling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. grappling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. grappling: Legal dictionary

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  1. grappling: Encyclopedia

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  1. grappling: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grappling)

▸ noun:  (gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with.
▸ noun:  A grappling hook or grappling iron.
▸ noun:  A small anchor; a grapnel.

Similar:
wrestle, tackling, braving, confronting, coping with, hand-to-hand struggle, rassling, grapplement, gripping, grasping, more...

Opposite:
releasing, letting go, relinquishing

Types:
judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, sambo, catch wrestling, shoot wrestling, shuai jiao, more...

Phrases:
grappling hook, grappling hooks, grappling irons, grappling iron, grappling tongs, more...

Adjectives:
such, close, successful, much, blind, creative, real, physical, intellectual, mutual, hand

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Similar:
wrestle, tackling, braving, confronting, coping with, hand-to-hand struggle, rassling, grapplement, gripping, grasping, more...

Opposite:
releasing, letting go, relinquishing

Types:
judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, sambo, catch wrestling, shoot wrestling, shuai jiao, more...

Phrases:
grappling hook, grappling hooks, grappling irons, grappling iron, grappling tongs, Grappling position, Grappling hold, grappling with, grappling surface, more...

Adjectives:
such, close, successful, much, blind, creative, real, physical, intellectual, mutual, hand

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     steel blue,     midnight blue,     olive drab, more...



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