to grapple
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4.2
- verb
- /ˈɡræpəl/
:
lidiar con
- Recent global economic trends have pushed all Middle Eastern regimes to grapple with economic reforms.
- grapple with a problem
- grapple with issues
- grapple with challenges
He's just wild ass life whilst grappling the other serious health issues.
- He's just wild ass life whilst grappling the other serious health issues.
- And that's, I believe that's what humans are grappling toward.
- This is the question that I grappled with, grappled, grappled with.
- So the way again saying very clearly, nobody should take investing advice from me, and I mean nobody, I am still grappling to understand this stuff.
- They're just bringing a rigorous science to grapple with this organic thing.
- One of the people that we really want to grapple with is Immanuel Kant, and that is who this video is about.
- You know, And then I have to grapple with my attachment to that, right?
- There's a real failure to grapple with like complexity.
- It is probably what survivors grapple with most.
- And it does, you know, you know, require kind of grappling with, with, with certain realities.
- All of this drives us back to grapple anew with core human questions, questions that have animated philosophy and religion across the ages.
- And you know, how have you, have you grappled with that much?
- Embrace, understand, grapple with the consequences.
Examples
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But we must constantly grapple with who the real Hamlet might be.
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The Palestinians must demonstrate that they, too, are ready to grapple with the complexity of the struggle.
Academic text (2012) -
To grapple with those difficult questions.
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- As people grapple with our new reality, trying to accept the fact that they may never see those missing loved ones again.
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But it seems pretty routine for people to to kind of grapple with those big questions.
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At this moment, I do not think we have even started to grapple with that significantly.
Academic text (2017) -
Although the English enjoy better overall health than Americans, both countries still grapple with large health inequalities.
Academic text (2012) -
Studies of linguistic diversity patterns must also grapple with the dynamic nature of diversification processes over time.
Academic text (2013) -
All of this drives us back to grapple anew with core human questions, questions that have animated philosophy and religion across the ages.
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The teacher had to grapple with the students' confusion about the complex math problem.
Synonyms
851
2.8
To try very hard to do or deal with something difficult
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3.4
To try to deal with a difficult problem or task
121
3.9
To struggle with a difficult problem or decision
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6.1
To try hard to deal with a difficult problem or situation
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4.6
Try hard to deal with a difficult problem
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5.5
Start to accept and deal with a difficult situation
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5.9
Think carefully about something because it is hard to understand
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3.0
To try hard to solve a problem
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9.9
To struggle with a hard problem or task
Phrasal Verbs
How Hard
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4.6
56
4.2
152
3.4
134
4.3
∞
1.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grapple with a problem is a later, figurative use that compares thinking to a physical struggle or 'wrestling', so the word now means trying hard to deal with or understand something difficult.