Meaning & use
grasped
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Seized and held firmly with the hand, or understood something fully (past tense of grasp).
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She grasped the railing tightly as the boat rocked.
It took him a while, but he finally grasped the concept of compound interest.
A note on using this word
Grasp has both a physical sense (to hold) and a mental one (to comprehend), and the two meanings developed from the same underlying idea of 'taking hold' of something.
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