Grab
Grab verb - To take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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An alien tree similar to the tangle tree in the Xanth novels by Piers Anthony: long tentacles that grab victims and take them to its mouth to be dissolved.
Source: Plant Aliens -
One of these involved the cat being stuck up a extremely tall palm tree and requiring a trained tree surgeon to climb the tree with his equipment and grab the cat.
Source: Cat Up a Tree -
She becomes a rhino, lets him grab her horn, and tries to crush him against a tree, but he escapes at the last minute, letting her trap herself through the tree at the top of a cliff.
Source: Disney / The Sword in the Stone
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Tree and Grab. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/grab/tree
Grab & Tree. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/grab/tree>.
Tree or Grab. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/grab/tree.
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