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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



... is the habit of so receiving and absorbing impressions or ideas that they or their representatives shall be ready for revival or recall whenever wanted. It is learning through relations—by thinking—from grasping the ideas or thoughts—the meaning and the comprehension of the subject matter. This mode of learning promotes attention ...
— Assimilative Memory - or, How to Attend and Never Forget • Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
... Polly, picking up the tub, and giving two or three quick sops to the floor. "Here you are, Pussy," grasping Phronsie, crying as she was, and carrying ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... come from him in which he asked to be sent at the same time a book on chemistry, a text-book of medicine, a novel, and some treatise on philosophy or theology. He read as though he were swimming in the sea among broken pieces of wreckage, and in his desire to save his life was eagerly grasping one ...
— Best Russian Short Stories • Various
... kind of joyful frenzy, and ran about the room, grasping at everything that happened to be in his way. He seized one of the bedposts, and it became immediately a fluted golden pillar. He pulled aside a window curtain, in order to admit a clear spectacle of the wonders which he was performing; and the tassel grew heavy ...
— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various
... Michael had finished their breakfast and were playing together. Michael was standing up in the high window-seat, grasping a long pole with a curtain hook at the end of it, with which he made frantic but futile efforts to land Stella, who was dashing about in a perfectly break-neck fashion in a box ...
— Paul the Courageous • Mabel Quiller-Couch


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