Capture
Capture verb - To take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly.
Usage example: captured the cat just as it was about to escape out the front door
Grasp is a synonym for capture in action topic. In some cases you can use "Grasp" instead a verb "Capture", when it comes to topics like catch, get, grab.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| full | full capture | full grasp |
| fine | fine capture | fine grasp |
| brief | brief capture | brief grasp |
| small | small capture | small grasp |
| Other adjectives: actual, great, weak, quick, easy, ultimate, last. | ||
Common collocations
| characters | capture characters | grasp characters |
| town | capture town | grasp town |
Both words in one sentence
- However, this was Amy's plan; she is able to capture Willow for her boyfriend Warren, who wanted revenge on Dark Willow almost killing him, and also to lure Buffy into the grasp of the General Ripper hunting her.
Source: Deus Exit Machina -
This is also the end of Sun Ce's quest to halt the expansion of the Taiping cult in the Eastern region: though he manages to destroy its grasp on his people, toast its entire army and capture its leader, he ends up getting assassinated by a vengeful Zuo Ci, the leader of Taiping cult in the North.
Source: Manhua / Ravages Of Time -
Field Marshal Radik Gradenko, who's own incompetence leads to the endangerment of the Iron Curtain project as well as the inability to capture the Allied Chronosphere; Albert Einstein is also able to slip out of his grasp, all of these due to his own strategic blunders.
Source: General Failure
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