grasp

1. (sometimes figurative) Grip.Examples: "A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp."; "What the anvil? what dread grasp. Dare its deadly terrors clasp!"; "Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear."figurativelysometimes