grappling
gra pling
- n the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully - n the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
- v come to terms with
- v to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
- Lurid details aside, the book offers a peek at a man still grappling with his sister's dizzying fame.
- Halfway through 2008, Vietnam's authoritarian government finds itself grappling with soaring prices, collapsing markets and an increasingly restive workforce.
- Giap's new barrages came while South Viet Nam was grappling to regain a measure of normalcy amid the death and devastation from the first at tacks on 35 population centers.