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Grasp vs Grub - What's the difference?

grasp | grub |

As verbs the difference between grasp and grub

is that grasp is to grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand while grub is to scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.

As nouns the difference between grasp and grub

is that grasp is grip while grub is an immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.

grasp

English

(wikipedia grasp)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
  • (senseid)To understand.
    • I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .

    Derived terms

    * grasp the nettle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Grip.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • (senseid)Understanding.
  • That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
  • :

    • grub

    English

    (wikipedia grub)

    Noun

  • (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
  • (uncountable, slang) Food.
  • (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
    • (Carew)
    Synonyms
    * (immature insect): larva * : nosh, tucker
    Derived terms
    * grubby * witchetty grub

    Related terms

    * caterpillar * maggot * worm

    Verb

    (grubb)
  • To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
  • To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up .
    • to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
  • * Hare
    • They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
  • (slang) To supply with food.
    • (Charles Dickens)

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