saṃ-√grah (or √grabh), P. Ā. -gṛhṇāti, -gṛhṇīte (Ved. generally -gṛbhṇāti, -gṛbhṇīte), to seize or hold together, take or lay hold of. grab, grasp, gripe, clasp, clench, snatch RV. &c. &c
• to take, receive (kindly or hospitably), encourage, support, favour, protect Hit. BhP
• to seize on, attack (as an illness) MBh
• to apprehend, conceive, understand BhP
• to carry off ib. &c
• to gather together, assemble, collect, compile ib. &c
• to include, comprehend, contain Gaut. Pat
• to draw together, contract, make narrower, abridge ŚBr
• to draw together (a bow in order to unstring it) MBh
• to hold in, restrain, check, govern MBh
• to constrain, force Mn. viii, 48
• to keep together, close, shut (as the mouth) KātyŚr
• to concentrate (the mind) BhP
• to take in marriage, marry ib
• to mention, name ib
• Caus. -grāhayati, to cause to grasp or take hold of or receive or comprehend or understand, impart, communicate (with acc. of thing and acc. or dat. of person) Car. BhP.: Desid. jighṛkṣati, to wish to take hold of &c
• to wish to collect MBh
• to wish to take in marriage, desire to marry Daś

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William