All 4 Uses of
grapple
in
Catch-22
- In a matter of moments they had disposed energetically of a problem with which Yossarian and Sergeant Towser had been grappling unsuccessfully for months.†
Chpt 32
- All at once he realized — though the writhing turbulence beneath him had not diminished one whit — that she was no longer grappling with him, recognized with a quiver that she was not fighting him but heaving her pelvis up against him remorselessly in the primal, powerful, rhapsodic instinctual rhythm of erotic ardor and abandonment.†
Chpt 38
- 'He's having convulsions,' one of the men grappling with one of the young lieutenant's limbs answered.†
Chpt 39
- He might have stabbed you to death as you grappled with him on the balcony.†
Chpt 41 *
Definition:
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(grapple) to struggle:
typically a mental struggle -- as in coming to terms with something
more rarely a physical struggle -- as in hand-to-hand combat or moving something heavy or awkward