To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?
To understand.
I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
Grip.
A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp.
Understanding.
There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.
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From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr...
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To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
The goal is within my grasp.