grabble
Americanverb (used without object)
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to feel or search with the hands; grope.
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to sprawl; scramble.
verb
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(intr) to scratch or feel about with the hands
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(intr) to fall to the ground; sprawl
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(tr) to seize rashly
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Origin of grabble
Example Sentences
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It’s that we want—and need—the ability to grabble with nuance and ambiguity that are inherent when our bodies and minds fail.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2018
He jump up, he did, en 'gun ter grabble in de quog-mire des ez hard ez he kin.
From Nights With Uncle Remus by Winter, Milo
Often raccoons, foxes, and squirrels grabble them up.
From The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses by Jones, B. W.
For “the wind bloweth where it listeth,” as Christ saith; we must not grabble nor search after the same.
From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Bell, Captain Henry
And there's few of the police would like to grabble with them.
From Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish by Gregory, Lady
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