Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable)A sudden snatch at something.

  2. (countable)An acquisition by violent or unjust means.

  3. (countable)A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.

    Greifer

    захва́тzaxvát

    a mechanical device for gripping an object

  4. A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.

    (countable, uncountable)A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

  5. (countable)A sound bite.

  6. (countable, slang, uncountable)The rescue of a person from a burning structure.

    захва́тzaxvát

    захва́тzaxvát, захо́пленняzaxóplennja

  7. (uncountable)A simple card game.

  8. A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.

  9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)That which is seized.

Examples

1121 sentences
  1. Would you like to grab something to eat?

    Хочеш щось перекусити?

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  2. Would you like to go grab a bite to eat?

    Ви не хотіли би чогось перекусити?

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  3. Tom grabbed Mary by the arm.

    Том схопив Мері за руку.

    ruТом схватил Мэри за руку.

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  4. Tom grabbed the money and ran.

    Том схопив гроші й побіг.

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  5. Tom reached for the apple on the table, but Mary grabbed it first.

    Том потягнувся за яблуком на столі, але Мері схопила його перша.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the act of grabbing something or someone:
Русский
By meaning 1
a mechanical device that grabs:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a mechanical device that grabs:

Origin

From Middle Dutch grabben or Middle Low German grabben (“to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”),

From Middle Dutch grabben or Middle Low German grabben (“to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”), from Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *grabbōn, a secondary form of Proto-Germanic *grabōną (“to gather, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to gather, rake, grab, seize”).

From Arabic غُرَاب (ḡurāb) and Hindi ghurb?: crow, raven, a kind of Arab ship.

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Forms

plural: grabs

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

36 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • grab a bite
  • go grab a
  • let's go grab
  • grabbed the rope
  • go grab
  • grab your bag
  • let's grab a
  • grab something to
  • let's grab
  • want to grab
  • to grab a
  • grab some

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
grab — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto