<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.</li><li>Synonyms: grab, clutch, grip</li><li>Antonyms: release</li><li>to seize upon; hold firmly.</li><li>to get hold of mentally; comprehend; understand: I don't grasp your meaning.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of grasping or gripping, as with the hands or arms: to make a grasp at something.</li><li>a hold or grip: to have a firm grasp of a rope.</li><li>one's arms or hands, in embracing or gripping: He took her in his grasp.</li><li>one's power of seizing and holding; reach: to have a thing within one's grasp.</li><li>hold, possession, or mastery: to wrest power from the grasp of a usurper.</li><li>Synonyms: clutches</li><li>mental hold or capacity; power to understand.</li><li>Synonyms: comprehension, apprehension, understanding</li><li>broad or thorough comprehension: a good grasp of computer programming.</li></ul>