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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
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
Now, they, I admid, were fine, noble, sensible fellows; they had indelligence enough to regognize the diffiguldies of the siduation, and do grabble with them in a sensible way.
From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Browne, Gordon
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
He engaged some boys to grabble out the nuts from the sand beds, urging care, but many of the best were broken and injured.
From Walnut Growing in Oregon by Cooper, Jacob Calvin
"Who gets me, I think, will have to swoop down in an aeroplane, and grabble me all up and fly away with me!"
From Patty's Suitors by Wells, Carolyn
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