Usually means: Held tightly in a struggle.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. grappled: Merriam-Webster
  2. grappled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. grappled: Vocabulary.com
  4. grappled: Wordnik
  5. grappled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. grappled: Wiktionary
  7. Grappled, grappled: Dictionary.com
  8. grappled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Grappled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Grappled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. grappled: FreeDictionary.org
  12. grappled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. grappled: Legal dictionary

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  1. grappled: Encyclopedia

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  1. grappled: Idioms

(Note: See grapple as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (grapple)

verb:  (transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.
verb:  (intransitive) To wrestle or tussle.
verb:  (figuratively, with with) To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
noun:  A close hand-to-hand struggle.
noun:  The act of grappling. (uncountable)
noun:  A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
noun:  (nautical) A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grappling iron.
noun:  (nautical) A grapnel (“type of anchor”).
verb:  (transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
verb:  (intransitive) To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To hook and raise with a grapple.
noun:  (marketing) A combination of grape and apple flavors.
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