-grabbingsuffix
uk/ -ɡræb.ɪŋ/us/ -ɡræb.ɪŋ/getting or taking a lot of the stated thing:
a money-grabbing scheme
a headline-grabbing court case (= one which is being written about a lot in newspapers)
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Capturing or taking possession of things
- apprehend
- apprehension
- arrogate
- at bay idiom
- bag
- cage
- capture
- catch
- collar
- corner
- entangle
- get your claws into sb idiom
- get/lay/put your hands on sb idiom
- grab
- grasp at sth
- seize
- sequester
- snag
- snatch
- snatch at sth
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