grab :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

force away, wrest, pull away

v. pull away

catch, take hold of

v. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of; "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!"

snaffle, seize quickly, snap up

v. get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale"

grab

adj. taken or to be taken at random: "grab samples"

pluck, tweak, pick off, pull sharply, pull off, pull away from

v. pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"

pluck, plunk

v. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

wrench, twist violently

v. twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"

extract, uproot, pull up, move forcibly

v. pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

disentangle, untangle, extricate, disencumber

v. release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"

transfer, remove

v. shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court"

remove, take out, move out

v. cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"

twist, distort

v. form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"

jerk, yank

v. pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"

heave, buckle, warp

v. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

express, extract, take out, press out, pull out

v. take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel"

wrench, wring

v. twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"

choke, scrag

v. wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"

pry, jimmy, lever, prise

v. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"

throttle, strangulate, strangle

v. kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"

hit, make, reach, gain, get to, arrive at, attain, get through to

v. reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

grasp, grip, hold on

v. hold firmly

pass, overtake, travel past

v. travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"

fracture, crack

v. become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"

reserve, earmark, set aside, allow, appropriate

v. give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day"

pull, pluck, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume, strip of hair, strip of feathers

v. strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"

pull, draw, force

v. cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

force, do forcibly, exert force on

v. do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!"

catch up

v. reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework"

jerking, jerky, arrhythmic, unsteady

adj. not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

crooked, asymmetrical

adj. irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with an crooked hemline"

casual, occasional

adj. occuring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"

improper, unconventional, unlawful

adj. not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking practices"

randomized

adj. set up or distributed in a deliberately random way

straggly

adj. growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"

strong

adj. of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; "`sing' is a strong verb"

substandard

adj. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"

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