Synonym: clasp, clutch, command, comprehension, control, domination, grapple, grip, hold, possession, seize, understanding. Antonym: free, loosen, release. Similar words: grass, grassroots, aspect, teaspoon, blasphemy, exasperation, as soon as possible, brass. Meaning: [græsp /grɑːsp] 
n. 1. understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something 2. the limit of capability 3. a firm controlling influence 4. the act of grasping. v. 1. hold firmly 2. get the meaning of something.
n. 1. understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something 2. the limit of capability 3. a firm controlling influence 4. the act of grasping. v. 1. hold firmly 2. get the meaning of something. 
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181) John Gutfreund, although himself a trader by training, did not grasp the contradictions inherent in his compensation system.
182) It would shatter the illusion he was trying to create of having a unique grasp of this new warrant business.
183) When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow. Robert H. Schuller 
184) Mrs Bottomley later dismissed suggestions that she had failed to grasp the nettle.
185) Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality.
186) The handgrips should be shaped so that children can grasp them firmly.
187) Usually this happens because the task is too broadly stated to get a firm grasp on it.
188) One person will grasp an opportunity with enthusiasm, whereas another will recoil from the same chance with anxiety and fear.
189) She seized the handle, but the impetus was too great, and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp.
190) So extraordinary is this fact that we shall approach it from sev-eral perspectives to try to bring its enormity within our grasp.
191) Lucker holds my hand with the kind of grasp that men at sea learn as a last resort.
192) The resurgence of the real poses challenges and opportunities that we are only beginning to grasp.
193) There are formal operational thinkers - those who immediately grasp the abstract form of the problem and solve it quickly and easily.
194) The main aim of this chapter is to provide you with a grasp of political economy.
195) Some people just seem to know, to have a grasp[sentencedict.com], and the ability to provide vision.
196) When the workers are slow to grasp that reality, the results are often heartbreaking.
197) Fame has come suddenly, and Peyton is finding it hard to grasp.
198) I didn't have a solid grasp of myself - I depended on other people and surroundings to cue me.
199) It was Gerald Kaufman, shadow foreign secretary, who did that for him, in a speech of vast sweeping grasp.
200) They employed a unique combination of theoretic analysis, practical grasp, and imaginative foresight.
201) Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.
202) The army had failed to grasp that their mission was to protect the navy's ships, not vice versa.
203) Taking place on the trading floor was a strange inversion that be-came more apparent the longer management failed to grasp events.
204) This was separated from the other digits, giving their owners the ability to grasp and manipulate objects.
205) Sadly, it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board.
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