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say it: GRA-pling
grappling is a noun meaning "the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat". It is pronounced /ˈɡɹæplɪŋ/ — GRA-pling. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
“they had a fierce wrestle”
“we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully”
the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grappling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.