Crossword-Solution: GRAPPLES 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Imitates a wrestler. 1 answer
Ship hooks 1 answer
Struggles (with) 1 answer
Wrestles (with). 1 answer
Comes to grips with 2 answers
Wrestles 2 answers
Struggles 15 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCAZEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GRAPPLES (5)

There, under the sun and under the speckless sheen of the sky, the wooing of the Titan began, the vast primal passion, the two world-forces, the elemental Male and Female, locked in a colossal embrace, at grapples in the throes of an infinite desire, at once terrible and divine, knowing no law, untamed, savage, natural, sublime.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
But him the paynim well awakes again, Whom by the neck he with strong arm has caught, And gripes and grapples with such mighty force, He falls on earth, pulled headlong from his horse.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
CXXXIII Rodomont filled with spite and rage, his foe Takes by the neck and shoulders, and now bends Towards him, and now pushes from him; now Raises from earth, and on his chest suspends; Whirls here and there and grapples; and to throw The stripling sorely in that strife contends.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
This was one of the great Guggenhammer family; a younger one, but nevertheless one of the crowd with which he had locked grapples in the North.
Burning Daylight Jack London 1996
But he never lost his head, and he knew that he was not yet strong enough to go into death-grapples with those three early enemies.
Burning Daylight Jack London 1996

Quotes with GRAPPLES (3)

Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe. In South Africa, no one doubts that Wednesday's elections will be free and fair. While there is an unacceptable degree of government corruption, there is no evidence of the wholesale kleptocracy of Robert Mugabe's elite. While there has been the abuse of the organs of state by the …
Mark Gevisser
One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete disputations of armchair scholars. He grapples with them himself, in his own lifetime.
Mark Leyner The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
You mean the day they stop needing the church," Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. "Doubt is your last shred of control. It is doubt that brings souls to you. Our need to know that life has meaning. Man's insecurity and need for an enlightened soul assuring him everything is part of a master plan. But the church is not the only enlightened soul on the planet! We all seek God in different ways. What are you afraid of? That God will show himself somewhere other than inside…
Dan Brown Angels & Demons
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1954–2008).