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English to English adjective
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Seizing; embracing; catching. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30 noun
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understanding with difficulty | | Example: the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
source: wordnet30
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the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | | source: wordnet30
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