claw, hook

wrestles, cope, confront, dealing, grips, facing, vexing, tackle, empathize, ponder, agonize, burdened, sidestep, juggle, fraught, saddled, loom, sympathize, mull, bedevil, wrangle, weigh, contend, fret, resonate, untangle, preoccupied, dodge, bicker, broach, bemoan, handle, solve, plaguing, contemplate, discuss, beset, intertwined, reconcile, navigate, struggling, transfix, endure, reeling, communicate, debating, collide, pressing, gird, decry, tinker, pummel, connect, bracing, delve, sparred, wield, freighted, bewail, linger, bombard, decipher, surmount, examine, imbue, defy, overcome, wade, ignore, meet, entwined, revisit, comprehend, disentangle, react, intermingle, explore, vacillate, resolve, mounting, pervade, jostle, scrutinize, unravel, dissect, awash, challenges, unsnarl, resist, consult, embrace, riddled, adapt, shrug, hamstrung, peppered, absorb, intersect, address, perplex, foists, deliberates, tussle, plunge, wrestle, lunge, combat, fight, scrimmage, jolt, rush, storm, blast, combats, stab, batde, battle, blizzard, blow, burst, encounter, engagement, grab, prong, pronged, boat, threepronged, accommodating, arsenal, baited, barbed, barbless, bended, blunt, boot, cant, cephalad, clawlike, coat, cracking, curving, dextral

cope with, crampon, crampoon, cut, hack, match, meet, rub along, scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by

take the bull by the horns

act, clutch, dredging bucket, move, prehend, seize, struggle, tool

clamshell, contend, cope, deal, get by, grapnel, grappler, grappling, grappling hook, grappling iron, grip, hand-to-hand struggle, make do, make out, manage, wrestle, wrestling