grasp
verb (used with object)
to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
grasper
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a word derived from
grasp.
Example Sentences
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Researchers believe the species' long, curved claws and its ability to strongly flex them would have made it an efficient grasper of vegetation.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
In two lines you have a portrait of Milligan as a self-aggrandizing grasper and Burger as the justifiably confident voice of authority.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Once the gallbladder was free, Giulianotti used the grasper to bring it near the surface; the assistant surgeon then used forceps to pull it out of the patient’s belly button.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
Gilroy once again cast Russo, his wife, as a well-heeled, coreless grasper: Her gallery owner, Rhodora Haze, is an ex-punk who’s reinvented herself as a “purveyor of good taste.”
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019
That foxey old grasper and griper—' 'Mr Boffin?' inquired Venus, with a glance towards the alligator's yard or two of smile.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
