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Definition

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

Even more rarely, grapple or grappling hook can be used as a noun to reference a tool (consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding) that is often thrown with a rope.

I've just begun to grapple with the problem.

grapple = struggle

the two men grappled with each other for several minutes
The consideration of these facts impresses my mind almost in the same manner as does the vain endeavour to grapple with the idea of eternity.
Charles Darwin -- The Origin of Species
enabled to grapple with all the difficulties and solve all the problems of life
Edwin Abbott -- Flatland
We bumped into each other and grappled.
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

grappled = struggled with each other

I squirmed, wanting to show I had been grappling deeply with such questions.
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie

grappling = struggling

Forgetting that they were already invisible, they shrank into the shadows, staring at the dark outlines of two people grappling with each other ten feet away.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

grappling = engaging in a physical struggle

Since the funeral, she'd grappled with the extraordinary events that had led to that fateful day.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
Behind this thought there was a worse one, with which he dared not grapple.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
The fatal hand had grappled with the mystery of life, and was the bond by which an angelic spirit kept itself in union with a mortal frame.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark
He might have stabbed you to death as you grappled with him on the balcony.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
She was at last about to grapple in earnest with England.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
Apparently he had dislodged it as he grappled with the door in the throes of his heart attack.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
But he was off somewhere, grappling with his own ghosts.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
The third button brought up a grappling hook that could be used to lock onto an enemy's chariot or push it away.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
The mind finds answers, the heart grapples with new truths.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Fortunately he missed the aim; and on my approaching to grapple with him, took to his heels and ran for it.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Directly above them, Festus grappled with the earth goddess.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
She was at last about to grapple in earnest with England.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
If he had been armed I am sure he would have leaped across the table and we would have grappled on the floor until either he or I had succumbed.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

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