Definition of Grasping

Noun

  • the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
    - taking hold
  • understanding with difficulty
    "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"

Adjective

  • immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
    "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"
    "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"
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Word games points for the Grasping

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Unscramble grasping

232 unscramble word found using the letters grasping.
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