Definition of "grappled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of grapple. (verb)

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• "Michael Lipham, in Ann Arbor, Mich., says he, too, "grappled" with whether to restrict the funds he was giving to a family member "to something about which I would feel good.""
• "We went to the same schools, in more and more intimate companionship, from the time we were twelve until we were twenty years of age; and our lives and hearts were "grappled" to each other with "links of steel" ever after."
• "Still, with "Game Over" out of print and out of date, who will tell the saga of how Nintendo trounced upstart Sega, grappled with Microsoft's Xbox, triumphed with the Wii and now contends with casual gaming on phones?"