All handgrip synonyms

noun handgrip

• grasp — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
• knob — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• stem — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, considered as a group of academic or career fields (often used attributively): degree programs in STEM disciplines; teaching STEM in high school.
• clamp — A clamp is a device that holds two things firmly together.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
• coercion — Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
• fixing — Informal. a position from which it is difficult to escape; predicament.
• ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
• gripe — Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
• grapple — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
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• clench — When you clench your fist or your fist clenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
• brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
• duress — compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
• clinch — If you clinch something you are trying to achieve, such as a business deal or victory in a contest, you succeed in obtaining it.
• tenure — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
• snatch — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
• strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
• cinch — If you say that something is a cinch, you mean that you think it is very easy to do.
• vise — visa.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• squeeze — to press forcibly together; compress.
• purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
• clutch — If you clutch at something or clutch something, you hold it tightly, usually because you are afraid or anxious.
• fastening — something that fastens, as a lock or clasp.
• wrench — to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist.
• anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
• crushing — A crushing defeat, burden, or disappointment is a very great or severe one.
• handshake — handshaking
• handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
• clamping — the immobilization of a car or other vehicle by means of a wheel clamp
• grapnel — a device consisting essentially of one or more hooks or clamps, for grasping or holding something; grapple; grappling iron.
• handhold — a grip with the hand or hands.
• holder — something that holds or secures: a pencil holder.
• ear — the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
• crank — If you call someone a crank, you think their ideas or behaviour are strange.
• bail — Bail is a sum of money that an arrested person or someone else puts forward as a guarantee that the arrested person will attend their trial in a law court. If the arrested person does not attend it, the money will be lost.
• arm — Your arms are the two long parts of your body that are attached to your shoulders and that have your hands at the end.
• stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
• hilt — the handle of a sword or dagger.
• helve — the handle of an ax, hatchet, hammer, or the like.
• haft — a handle, especially of a knife, sword, or dagger.
• tiller — a plant shoot that springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk.
• clasp — If you clasp someone or something, you hold them tightly in your hands or arms.
• embrace — An act of holding someone closely in one's arms.