Grasp vs Rob - What's the difference?
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To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
(senseid)To understand.
Grip.
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*: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.
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(lb) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
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(lb) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
To deprive (of).
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To burgle.
*2008 , National Public Radio, All Things Considered , Sept 4, 2008
*:Her house was robbed .
(lb) To commit robbery.
(lb) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
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Grasp is a related term of rob.
As an acronym grasp
is (software|object-oriented design).As a verb rob is
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English
(wikipedia grasp)Verb
(en verb)- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .
Derived terms
* grasp the nettleNoun
(en noun)rob
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) robben, from (etyl) (compare English reave). More at (l).Verb
(robb)Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos, passage=Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.}}