grab

To grab is defined as to seize or take suddenly or quickly.

(verb)

An example of to grab is to quickly snatch a cookie before anyone else.

The definition of a grab is a sudden snatch, or something that is suddenly or quickly taken.

(noun)

See grab in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb grabbed, grabbing

Origin: prob. < MDu grabben, akin to ON grapa, grasp < IE base *ghrebh- > Sans grabh-, to seize

intransitive verb

to grab or try to grab something: often with for, at, onto, etc.

noun

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See grab in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb grabbed grabbed, grab·bing, grabs

verb, transitive

To take or grasp suddenly: grabbed the letter from me.
To capture or restrain; arrest.
To obtain or appropriate unscrupulously or forcibly: grab public funds; grab power.
To take hurriedly: grabbed my coat and hat and left.
Slang To capture the attention of: a plot that grabs the reader.

verb, intransitive

To make a grasping or snatching motion: We grabbed for the life raft.

noun

Sudden seizure of something or someone; a snatch: “The imminence of death is reflected in every last power-stroke and grab of the great money bosses” (Dylan Thomas).
One that is grabbed.
A mechanical device for gripping an object.

Origin:

Origin: Obsolete Dutch

Origin: or Low German grabben

Origin: , from Middle Dutch

Origin: or Middle Low German; see ghrebh-¹ in Indo-European roots

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