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US
/ˈɡɹæspɪŋ/
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[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːspɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːspɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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understanding with difficulty
the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings - the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
ADJECTIVE
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immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
they are avaricious and will do anything for money
grasping commercialism
a grasping old miser
greedy for money and power
casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
grew richer and greedier
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
How To Use grasping In A Sentence
- About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
- Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
- They have shown they are grasping the nettle. Times, Sunday Times
- But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
- Her blood-red lips and hooded eyes, her large hands firmly grasping the wheel, all convey a woman in control of her destiny.
- It was certainly entertaining and one could not help but feel sorry for him for being involved with such a grasping, shallow woman of the sort portrayed here!
- The attitude of the local council is lamentable in not grasping this opportunity with both hands.
- Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight. Ilium
- The machine's arms lifted up, grasping it's head, rock and stone cracking and falling off in large boulders.
- Wu Jinying is grasping steel knife to slaughter a cattle in workshop is involute arm, hand.