GRASPING

Definition:

1. [noun] understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
   
   
2. [noun] the act of gripping something firmly with the hands
   Synonyms: taking hold, seizing, prehension
   
   
3. [adjective] 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"
   Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile
   
   

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• clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold