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Adjective grasping has 1 sense
- avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile - 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"
Antonym: unacquisitive (indirect, via acquisitive)
Noun grasping has 2 senses
- grasping - understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
--1 is a kind of understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy
- grasping, taking hold, seizing, prehension - the act of gripping something firmly with the hands
--2 is a kind of control
--2 has particulars:
Verb grasp has 2 senses
- grasp, hold on - hold firmly
--1 is one way to hold, take hold
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend - get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
--2 is one way to understand
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue grasp the movie
They won't grasp the story
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