Synonyms:
cope, get_by, make_out, make_do, contend, grapple, deal, manage
Meaning: come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
Synonyms:
grapple, grip
Meaning: to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match; "the two men grappled with each other for several minutes"
Usage examples
But now I shall know how to grapple with this."
I dropped into the nearest chair and tried to grapple with something far beyond words.
As by the dead we love to sit, Become so wondrous dear, As for the lost we grapple, Though all the rest are here, --
With furious grapple She gave him requital early thereafter, And stretched out to grab him; the strongest of warriors Faint-mooded stumbled, till he fell in his traces, Foot-going champion.
Every apparently separate piece of reality has, as it were, hooks which grapple it to the next piece; the next piece, in turn, has fresh hooks, and so on, until the whole universe is reconstructed.
It is therefore with pride that one can say that considering all the complex problems with which the American farmer has to grapple, he is a hundred times better off than his brother farmers in any country in the world.
There was the other girl on her way to study art, who was travelling quite alone, and seemed to have nobody to meet her or to go to except a fellow student of her own age, already in Paris, but who seemed quite unconscious of her lonely position and competent to grapple with anything or anybody.