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Grab   /græb/   Listen
Grab

verb
(past & past part. grabbed; pres. part. grabbing)
1.
Take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of.  Synonyms: catch, take hold of.  "Grab the elevator door!"
2.
Get hold of or seize quickly and easily.  Synonyms: snaffle, snap up.
3.
Make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand.
4.
Obtain illegally or unscrupulously.
5.
Take or grasp suddenly.
6.
Capture the attention or imagination of.  Synonym: seize.  "The movie seized my imagination"
noun
1.
A mechanical device for gripping an object.
2.
The act of catching an object with the hands.  Synonyms: catch, snap, snatch.  "He made a grab for the ball before it landed" , "Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away" , "The infielder's snap and throw was a single motion"



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"Grab" Quotes from Famous Books



... shouldn't he have been happy? Surely no man was ever blessed with a better wife! He had made a reach into the matrimonial grab-bag and drawn forth a jewel. This jewel was many-faceted. Without affectation or silly pride, the clergyman's wife did the work that God sent her to do. The sense of duty was strong upon her. Babies came, ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... soon," replied Harry. "They had the diamonds, and if they've eluded our vigilance, or given them to anyone else to smuggle over, they'll have to get the jewels away from the smuggler and that will be the time for us to grab them." ...
— The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler - or, Working for the Custom House • Francis W. Doughty
... gethered in most of her husbands afore Fiddy was old enough to hev her finger in the pie; but she cut her eye-teeth early, Fiddy did, 'n' there wa'n't no kind of a feller come to set up with the widder but she 'd everlastin'ly grab him, if she hed any use fer him, 'n' then there 'd be Hail Columby, I tell yer. But Dixie, he was 's blind 's a bat 'n' deef 's a post. He could n't see nothin' but Fiddy, 'n' he couldn't ...
— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
... attempt of the Japanese to grab in wholesale fashion the public lands of Korea, under the so-called Nagamori scheme, aroused so much indignation that it was withdrawn. Then they set about accomplishing the same end in other ways. Much of the land of Korea ...
— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie
... you see him—I think the masculine pronoun is permissible—you'll see what I mean, sir. It's this Lord Koreff, the Marshal. He came here on business, and had to bring the king along, for fear somebody else would grab him while he was gone. The whole object of Durendalian politics, as I understand, is to get possession of the person of the king. Koreff was on my screen for half an hour; I just got rid of him. Planet's pretty heavily agricultural, ...
— Ministry of Disturbance • Henry Beam Piper


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