Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abrazo | (Spanish) in Latin America, an embrace. |
| bearhug | a firm embrace; (verb) to embrace firmly. |
| beclasp | to clasp, embrace. |
| ceaze | (Obs.) to seize. |
| clasp | a fastening, a grasp; (verb) to embrace tightly. |
| claucht | (Scots) to snatch. |
| claught | (Scots) to snatch. |
| clench | to grasp firmly. |
| clutch | a sudden grasp (verb) to grasp and hold tightly |
| clutchy | tending to clutch. |
| craple | (Spenser) a grapple. |
| deprehend | (Obs.) to catch; to seize. |
| enclasp | to clasp within; to embrace or encircle. |
| engrasp | (Spenser) to grasp. |
| fang | an animal's tooth; (verb, Shakesp.) to seize in the teeth. |
| forehent | to overtake, to seize. |
| forhent | to overtake, to seize. |
| glaum | (Scots) to clutch or grab. |
| grab | to grasp suddenly. |
| grabber | one who seizes or grabs. |
| grabble | to grope. |
| grabbler | one who grabbles, gropes. |
| grabby | greedy, grasping. |
| graple | (Spenser) a grapple. |
| graplin | a grapnel. |
| grapline | a grapnel. |
| grapple | an instrument for hooking or holding; (verb) to seize; to lay fast hold of. |
| grappler | one who grapples. |
| grasp | a firm hold; (verb) to seize firmly with the hand. |
| graspable | capable of being grasped. |
| grasper | one who grasps. |
| grasping | greedy. |
| graspingly | (Adv.) GRASPING. |
| graspless | without a grasp; relaxed. |
| grip | a tight hold (verb) to take hold of |
| griple | (Spenser) grasping. |
| gripper | one who, or that which, grips or seizes. |
| grippingly | (Adv.) GRIPPING. |
| gripple | greedy, grasping; (noun, obs.) a grasp; a gripe. |
| grubble | (Obs.) to grope. |
| had | (Scots) to hold. |
| handclasp | a handshake. |
| handhold | a handgrip. |
| haud | (Scots) to hold. |
| hauld | (Scots) as in out of house and hauld i.e. homeless. |
| hend | (Obs.) to seize, grasp. |
| hent | (Obs.) to seize, take. |
| hild | (Spenser) held. No -S. |
| hold | a grip; (verb) to grasp, to have in one's possession. |
| holdable | that can be held. |
| holder | one that holds. |
| inarm | to embrace. |
| inclasp | to clasp within; to embrace or encircle. |
| kep | (Scots) to catch. |
| phang | (Shakesp.) to seize in the teeth. |
| prehend | to lay hold of; to seize. |
| prehension | the act of taking hold, as with the hand or other member. |
| reseize | (Spenser) to reinstate. |
| sease | (Spenser) to seize. |
| seasure | (Obs.) a seizure. |
| seaze | (Spenser) to seize. |
| seizable | that can be seized. |
| seize | to take hold of suddenly and forcibly. |
| seysure | (Shakesp.) a seizure. |
| smug | complacent; (verb) to seize without ceremony |
| snatch | an act of snatching (verb) to seize suddenly |
| snatcher | one who snatches. |
| tong | (Chinese) a Chinese guild or secret society, particularly one associated with organized crime; (verb) to hold, manipulate, use tongs. |
| unseizable | not able to be seized. |
| vice | a tool with movable jaws for gripping an object that is being worked on; (verb) to grip in a vice. |
| vicelike | like a vice, as in vicelike grip. |
| wrast | (Obs.) to wrest. |