grappling with

Synonyms

attacking coping confronting hacking weathering tackling stomaching

Antonyms

supporting yielding aiding submitting quitting agreeing
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Examples

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. Adrienne Rich

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13. Siobhan Fahey

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live. David Alan Grier

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. E. Stanley Jones

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. J. M. Barrie

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. Stephen Greenblatt

Words in the phrase

grappling with

Close letter words and terms

grappling iron grappling technique grappling tongs grapsid grapsoid Graptemys barbouri