Grab vs. Grub

Grabverb

(transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.

Grabverb

(intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).

Grabverb

To restrain someone; to arrest.

Grabverb

To grip the attention; to enthrall.

Grabverb

(informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.

Grabverb

(informal) To consume something quickly.

Grabverb

To take the opportunity of.

Grabnoun

(countable) A sudden snatch at something.

Grabnoun

(countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.

Grabnoun

(countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.

Grabnoun

A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

Grabnoun

A sound bite.

Grabnoun

(obsolete) That which is seized.

Grabnoun

(uncountable) A simple card game.

Grabnoun

A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.

Grabnoun

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

Grabnoun

A sudden grasp or seizure.

Grabnoun

An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; - specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

Grabverb

To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.

Grabnoun

a mechanical device for gripping an object

Grabnoun

the act of catching an object with the hands;

Grabverb

take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of;

Grabverb

get hold of or seize quickly and easily;

Grabverb

make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand;

Grabverb

obtain illegally or unscrupulously;

Grabverb

take or grasp suddenly;

Grabverb

capture the attention or imagination of;

Grubnoun

(countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.

Grubnoun

Food.

Grubnoun

A dirty person.

Grubnoun

A despicable person; a lowlife.

Grubnoun

(obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.

Grubverb

To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.

Grubverb

(ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.

Grubverb

To supply with food.

Grubverb

To eat.

Grubverb

To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

Grubverb

To drudge; to do menial work.

Grubverb

To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; - followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.

Grubverb

To supply with food.

Grubnoun

The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; - called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.

Grubnoun

A short, thick man; a dwarf.

Grubnoun

Victuals; food.

Grubnoun

informal terms for a meal

Grubnoun

a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

Grubverb

ask for and get free; be a parasite

Grubverb

search about busily