Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word grapping.

Examples

  • Thailand is among several Asian nations grapping with rising inflation even as the U.S. and Europe cope with sluggish growth.

    Thailand Raises Rates as Prices Rise Phisanu Phromchanya 2011

  • You'll soon be making attention-grapping statements all over town.

    Gold Standard: Cutting to the Chase BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • The sudden stabbing pain, the cold sweat, grapping the chest and the collapse to the floor as seen in movies is more for dramatic effect and rarely happens to women.

    Heart Attack Symptoms for Women 2009

  • AS discussions have shown on this blog, these computer models are specifically tuned to produce ‘headline’ grapping outputs, thereby providing the politicians who fund them with what they want, namely the means to justify ever more increasing levels of taxation and the imposition of further ‘nanny state’ controls on how we live our lives.

    Unthreaded #13 « Climate Audit 2007

  • If Zalmay Khalilzad is confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, he'll have to deal with a rambunctious organization, grapping with a whole lot of hot button issues, issues Americans care deeply about.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007 2007

  • Bush is an evil man, a power-grapping despot who believes in absolute rule, a madman so wrapped up in his perceived role as "a wartime President" and "Commander in Chief" that he believes no law applies to him or his rotting, corrupt, administration.

    An American Hitler and his Gestapo 2006

  • Meaning with an update cargo module; one that has a return safety capsule CEV, a grapping section to latch onto the Hubble from the cargo container bay.

    NASA Watch: Hubble: January 2004 Archives 2004

  • Hi Keith To save the Hubble Telescope all that is needed would be a slightly modified shuttle C with an update cargo module; one that has a return safety capsule CEV, a grapping section to latch onto the Hubble and a follow up mission from the space shuttle with necessary hardware with a minimal staff to accomplish the task of retro fitting it with all the upgrades.

    NASA Watch: Hubble: January 2004 Archives 2004

  • A silent protest is infant UN high commission to investigate CHT area of Bangladesh where Bangladesh Government is killing and grapping Jumma peoples very silently by the military and Bengali settlers.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Bangladesh Government is killing and grapping Jumma peoples very silently by the military and

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.