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Noun: grasping grãsping- Understanding with difficulty
"the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings" - The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
- taking hold, seizing, prehension
Adjective: grasping grãsping- Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
"a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"
- avaricious, covetous, grabby [N. Amer], greedy, prehensile
Verb: grasp grãsp- Hold firmly
- hold on - Get the meaning of something
- grok [N. Amer], get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, compass, apprehend
Derived forms: graspings See also: acquisitive Type of: apprehension, control, discernment, hold, savvy, take hold, understand, understanding Encyclopedia: Grasp Grasping |