Grasped vs Embraced - What's the difference?
grasped | embraced |
(grasp)
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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(embrace)
To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts xx. 1
(obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
* Shakespeare
To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.
* Dryden
* Denham
To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
To fasten on, as armour.
(legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.
Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
(metaphorical) Enfolding, including.
As verbs the difference between grasped and embraced
is that grasped is (grasp) while embraced is (embrace).grasped
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*grasp
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(wikipedia grasp)Verb
(en verb)- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .
Derived terms
* grasp the nettleNoun
(en noun)embraced
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*embrace
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Alternative forms
* imbrace (obsolete)Verb
(embrac)- I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
- Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.
- (Shakespeare)
- I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.
- You embrace the occasion.
- What is there that he may not embrace for truth?
- I embrace this fortune patiently.
- Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .
- Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .
- Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
- (Spenser)
- (Blackstone)