Crossword clues for grasping
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grasping \Grasp"ing\, a.
Seizing; embracing; catching.
Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"greedy, acquisitive," late 14c., present participle adjective from grasp (v.).
Wiktionary
greedy, eager for wealth. n. The act of one who grasps or covets. v
(present participle of grasp English)
WordNet
adj. 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, greedy, prehensile]
n. understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
the act of gripping something firmly with the hands [syn: taking hold, seizing, prehension]
Usage examples of "grasping".
But I supposed the searchers were no more likely to enter Alsatia than were the bailiffs and catchpoles, so we were safeif that was the wordfrom the graspings of the law.
Their talons stretched and retracted, grasping the cookie fortunes that Balboa fed to them.
On its back the other beast bore a black warrior, plumed and befurred, grasping the reins in one hand and a feather-tufted spear in the other.
They were biaxially symmetric, possessing of a single cluster of sense organs mounted on a short, movable stalk, with two each grasping and locomotive appendages emanating from a thick torso.
The American Civil War Centennial had bred a thriving market for shooting reproductions of nineteenth-century caplock weaponsranging up from Philadelphia derringers to full-size field cannonand his firm had sent him over to try to strike a deal with certain of his contacts in the Italian arms manufactories involving production of these reproduction weapons at a cost less than that charged to them by American arms companies, with their millstones of higher overheads and production costs, and grasping, predatory unions.
The importuning chits more closely resembled grasping harpies than innocent maidens hoping to catch his eye.
Quickly he rolled back to his feet, throwing himself over Dardan and grasping the fallen sword.
It is truly astonishing what a great range of shades can thus be dyed by using two or three dyes suitably mixed together, and one of the things which go to making a successful dyer and colourist is the grasping of this fact by careful observation, and working accordingly.
Winders--one end planted between his hob-nailed boots, and his hands resting on or grasping the other end--and his frilled chin on the uppermost hand--he formed an eloquent triangle of life, that only needed the last life blow to knock sideways, backways, frontways, or anyways, and have it over.
Others succeeded in grasping their rifles, and Gorst received a nasty bullet wound in the shoulder, but not before he had accounted for one or two Huns with his revolver.
He answered by grasping her armpits, raising her up as he rose to his own feet, lifting her upon his hips and coupling them.
No dollar premiums to worry about, or other such hurdles set up by grasping governments.
The woman, employed as a hutkeeper in the settlement, was unpleasant and grasping, and she had made it plain, on the only occasion when Jenny had spoken to her, that her fee would be doubled if she were compelled to wait more than two hours for the delivery.
Grasping the strut, Conan tugged at it, relaxed, pulled again, rested, then strained against the ironhard bone yet one more time.
Now grasping plants occurred, reaching thorny branches toward them, opening green jawlike processes.