Meaning

11 senses
  1. (intransitive)To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.

  2. (transitive)To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.

  3. (transitive)To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.

  4. (transitive)To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).

  5. (transitive)To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.

  6. (Southeastern, US, ambitransitive)To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.

  7. (ambitransitive)To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.

  8. (intransitive, obsolete)To search in a similar way using an implement.

  9. (obsolete, transitive)To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.

  10. (ambitransitive, obsolete)To fish on the grabble.

  11. (intransitive, obsolete)To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.

Origin

From grab + -le.

From grab + -le.

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Forms

grabbles, grabbling, grabbled, grabbled
Base formgrabble · to grabble
3rd person singulargrabbles
Present participlegrabbling
Past simplegrabbled
Past participlegrabbled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygrabble
he, she, itgrabbles

Past simpleLesson

all personsgrabbled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave grabbled
he, she, ithas grabbled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill grabble

Synonyms

64 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedgrabbler

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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