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Meaning of grasping


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  grasping
      adj 1: 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" [syn:
             {avaricious}, {covetous}, {grabby}, {grasping}, {greedy},
             {prehensile}]
      n 1: understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his
           most strenuous graspings"
      2: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the
         tentacles) [syn: {grasping}, {taking hold}, {seizing},
         {prehension}]


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