Usually means: Seized or held with force.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. grabbed: Merriam-Webster
  2. grabbed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grabbed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. grabbed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Grabbed, grabbed: Wordnik
  6. grabbed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. grabbed: Wiktionary
  8. Grabbed: Dictionary.com
  9. grabbed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Grabbed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Grabbed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. grabbed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. grabbed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. grabbed: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grabbed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grabbed: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grabbed: Idioms

(Note: See grab as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Grab)

verb:  (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
verb:  To restrain someone; to arrest.
verb:  (transitive) To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
verb:  (informal) To quickly collect, retrieve, or take.
verb:  (informal) To consume something quickly.
verb:  To take the opportunity of.
noun:  (countable) A sudden snatch at something.
noun:  (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
noun:  (countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
noun:  A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
noun:  (countable, media) A sound bite.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is seized.
noun:  (uncountable) A simple card game.
noun:  A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
noun:  A Singaporean company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments.
noun:  The electronic mobile app of the same name that provides these services.
noun:  (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, informal) A taxi ride booked through the Grab app.
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