Grip
Tentacle
Tentacle noun - Something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold.
Usage example: caught in the tentacles of organized crime
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Synonyms for Tentacle
Nearby Word: tentacular
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- While his near-blindness at the time makes the accuracy quite implausible, the fact that it's a tentacle rather than a rope means severing it wasn't necessary; merely inflicting pain was enough to make it release its grip.
Source: Shoot the Rope -
Guts just shouts at the horde in anger, but it might have also have been in defeat... until he sees Casca, his lover and the only other survivor of the massacre, being dangled bloody, naked, and unconscious from a demon's tentacle grip.
Source: Heroic Resolve
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