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Grasping   /grˈæspɪŋ/   Listen
Grasping

adjective
1.
Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.  Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile.  "Casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields" , "A grasping old miser" , "Grasping commercialism" , "Greedy for money and power" , "Grew richer and greedier" , "Prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
noun
1.
Understanding with difficulty.
2.
The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles).  Synonyms: prehension, seizing, taking hold.


Grasp

verb
(past & past part. grasper; pres. part. qraspine)
1.
Hold firmly.  Synonym: hold on.
2.
Get the meaning of something.  Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grok, savvy.





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"Grasping" Quotes from Famous Books



... of human action are fed; it is commonly the lot of man to sink into a state of mind that is at once unreceptive and unretentive. The result is that at the age of thirty he finds himself incapable of grasping new and difficult conceptions. This is the reason why so many injustices are permitted to exist in the world. Men in their youth are thoughtless; in their mature and old age they are ...
— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams
... Grasping this forearm with all the strength he possessed, Jack swung it toward the near side, until locking the forward wheel on that side against the sill of ...
— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood
... Kesiah, still grasping her small black bag, went into the dining-room and returned, bearing a beaten egg, which she handed to her sister. In her walk there was the rigid austerity of a saint who has adopted saintliness not ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... contains a carved cup-shaped font, a beautiful Dec. priest's doorway, and an elaborately sculptured aumbry and piscina. The unique features of the building, however, are the small projecting figures on the N. and S. walls of the sanctuary; the hand of the one on the S. will be seen still grasping the staple on which was once suspended ...
— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
... you, holding on this way?" asked the Monkey of Carlo, grasping tightly the dog's woolly back. "Do I ...
— The Story of a Monkey on a Stick • Laura Lee Hope


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