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grasping

English

  1. 🔊 immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
    “they are avaricious and will do anything for money”
  2. 🔊 the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
  3. 🔊 understanding with difficulty
    “the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings”

Similar words

taking hold seizing prehension avaricious covetous grabby greedy prehensile a hog for acquiring acquisitive acquisitiveness all-devouring all-engulfing ambitious for self autistic avarice avaricious avariciousness avid avidity avidness bloodsucking bottomless