Grabs and Shrugs

Grabs

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Shrugs and grabs are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shrugs" instead a verb "Grabs".

Shrugs

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Grabs and shrugs are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grabs" instead a verb "Shrugs".

Both words in one sentence

  • Catty asks the director if he's sure the wire's not live, and the director shrugs, so she grabs the wire... and then the director activates it, electrocuting her for real.
  • I Ate WHAT?! When Danny set out the dishes, including such delicacies as mealworm spaghetti and grasshopper chutney, Lindsay shrugs, grabs a fried spider and takes a huge bite while everyone else looks on in varying degrees of shock and queasiness.
    Source: I Ate WHAT?!
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Shrugs and Grabs. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/grabs/shrugs
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