Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exceedingly eager for material gain; avaricious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eager to gain possession of something; covetous; rapacious; avaricious; exacting; miserly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Seizing; embracing; catching.
- adjective Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Eager for money;
greedy . - verb Present participle of
grasp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun understanding with difficulty
- noun the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
- adjective immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
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Examples
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As for cognition of the impure appearances of seemingly true existence, the term grasping for true existence (bden-par grub-pa) has two meanings.
The Validity and Accuracy of Cognition of the Two Truths in Gelug-Prasangika 2006
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I shot my first red with a pumpmaster 760 and sprinted to the neighbors cabin grasping it by the tail.
Field & Stream 2009
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Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The difficulty modern people have in grasping all this can be startling; I myself experienced a small paradigm shift in my thinking while reading Waldstein's overview.
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Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2010
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A: For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
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One thing that movement conservatives have a hard time grasping is that so-called “characterological conservatives” do not necessarily (or even frequently) have any interest or anything in common with “conservatism” as an ideological movement.
Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History 2009
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I shot my first red with a pumpmaster 760 and sprinted to the neighbors cabin grasping it by the tail.
Field & Stream 2009
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Part of the difficulty in grasping the morality of this novel lies in the fact that Julia Glass gives very little indication as to what we are supposed to think.
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Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2010
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