Credit and Grasp

Credit

Credit verb - To explain (something) as being the result of something else.

Grasp and credit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grasp" instead a verb "Credit".

Grasp

Grasp verb - To have a practical understanding of.

Credit and grasp are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Credit" instead a verb "Grasp".

Nearby Words: grasping, grasped, grasper

How words are described

good good credit good grasp
full full credit full grasp
fine fine credit fine grasp
poor poor credit poor grasp
Other adjectives: small, actual, real, little, bad, easy, less, last.

Common collocations

power credit power grasp power
characters credit characters grasp characters
actions credit actions grasp actions

Both words in one sentence

  • Harry notes that it's to Ron's credit that he doesn't grasp why the cousin is an outcast and that he's invoking this trope unintentionally.
  • Malcolm in the Middle: After Reese is kicked out of the house for a bad prank, he rents his own apartment, and does surprisingly well... until his parents find out he didn't quite grasp the concept of a credit card.
  • The '90s In store debit often eliminated the need for cash at all, and the credit card was never more widely used (partly because more places than ever were accepting them, and partly because people didn't quite grasp the long term consequences of their overuse and abuse yet).
    Source: The '90s
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