grapple with sb
— phrasal verb with grapple uk/ˈɡræp.əl/us/ˈɡræp.əl/verb [ I ]
to hold onto someone and fight with them:
Two officers grappled with the gunman.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- action stations
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fray
- gunfight
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
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