"begrasp" meaning in English

See begrasp in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: begrasps [present, singular, third-person], begrasping [participle, present], begrasped [participle, past], begrasped [past]
Etymology: From be- (“around, about, completely”) + grasp. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|be|grasp|t1=around, about, completely}} be- (“around, about, completely”) + grasp Head templates: {{en-verb}} begrasp (third-person singular simple present begrasps, present participle begrasping, simple past and past participle begrasped)
  1. (transitive, rare, dialectal) To grasp around or about; grasp firmly, fully, or completely; apprehend. Tags: dialectal, rare, transitive Synonyms: grasp, grip Synonyms (grasp firmly): clasp
    Sense id: en-begrasp-en-verb-0iblEMa9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with be-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for begrasp meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "be",
        "3": "grasp",
        "t1": "around, about, completely"
      },
      "expansion": "be- (“around, about, completely”) + grasp",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From be- (“around, about, completely”) + grasp.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "begrasps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begrasping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begrasped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begrasped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "begrasp (third-person singular simple present begrasps, present participle begrasping, simple past and past participle begrasped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with be-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1827, William Tennant, Papistry storm'd",
          "text": "[...] As if his hand begrasp't already An iron-geddok; [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, The Contemporary Review, volume 21, page 218",
          "text": "I am now realmless; Me have so hard the clasps of Hell Firmly begrasped.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To grasp around or about; grasp firmly, fully, or completely; apprehend."
      ],
      "id": "en-begrasp-en-verb-0iblEMa9",
      "links": [
        [
          "grasp",
          "grasp"
        ],
        [
          "apprehend",
          "apprehend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare, dialectal) To grasp around or about; grasp firmly, fully, or completely; apprehend."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "grasp firmly",
          "word": "clasp"
        },
        {
          "word": "grasp"
        },
        {
          "word": "grip"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "begrasp"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "be",
        "3": "grasp",
        "t1": "around, about, completely"
      },
      "expansion": "be- (“around, about, completely”) + grasp",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From be- (“around, about, completely”) + grasp.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "begrasps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begrasping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begrasped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "begrasped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "begrasp (third-person singular simple present begrasps, present participle begrasping, simple past and past participle begrasped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with be-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1827, William Tennant, Papistry storm'd",
          "text": "[...] As if his hand begrasp't already An iron-geddok; [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, The Contemporary Review, volume 21, page 218",
          "text": "I am now realmless; Me have so hard the clasps of Hell Firmly begrasped.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To grasp around or about; grasp firmly, fully, or completely; apprehend."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grasp",
          "grasp"
        ],
        [
          "apprehend",
          "apprehend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare, dialectal) To grasp around or about; grasp firmly, fully, or completely; apprehend."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "grasp firmly",
      "word": "clasp"
    },
    {
      "word": "grasp"
    },
    {
      "word": "grip"
    }
  ],
  "word": "begrasp"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.