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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Grasping \Grasp"ing\, a.
     1. Seizing; embracing; catching.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as,
        he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. --
        Grasp"ing*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Grasping \Grasp"ing\, a.
     1. Seizing; embracing; catching.
  
     2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as,
        he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. --
        Grasp"ing*ness, n.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  grasping
       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 1: understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his
            most strenuous graspings"
       2: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands [syn: taking
          hold, seizing, prehension]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  grasping
     a.
     greedy, eager for wealth.
     n.
     The act of one who grasps or covets.
     vb.
     (en-ing form of: grasp)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  grasping
     a.
     greedy, eager for wealth.
     n.
     The act of one who grasps or covets.
     vb.
     (en-ing form of: grasp)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  grasping
     a.
     greedy, eager for wealth.
     n.
     The act of one who grasps or covets.
     vb.
     (en-ing form of: grasp)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  grasping
     a.
     greedy, eager for wealth.
     n.
     The act of one who grasps or covets.
     vb.
     (en-ing form of: grasp)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  grasping
     Englanti a.
     ahne

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  grasping
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en grasp ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb grasp)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  الإدراك

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  grasping //ˈɡɹæspɪŋ// //ˈɡɹɑːspɪŋ// 
  алчен, ненаситен
  greedy, eager for wealth

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ 
  uchopení

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  Ergreifen , Packen 
     Synonyms: prehension, seizing
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  ergreifen und festhaltend, gepackt haltend, umfassend, umklammern
     Synonym: gripping
  
   see: grip sb./sth., grasp sb./sth., gripped, grasped, grip sb. by the throat, grasp sb. in your arms
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  ergreifend, packend, fassend
   see: grasp sth., grasped, he/she grasps, I/he/she would grasp, grasp the nettle of sth., grasp at nothing
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  gierig, habgierig, habsüchtig [veraltet] , raffgierig [veraltet]
           Note: Person, begehrlich, begierig 
           Note: Gefühlsregung
     Synonyms: greedy, grabby, avaricious, covetous
  
   see: driven by money, money-hungry, cash-hungry
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  ramschend
     Synonym: buying cheap
  
   see: buy cheap, grasp, bought cheap, grasped
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  strebend
   see: grasp at sth., grasped
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  verstehend, erfassend
   see: grasp, grasped
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  
  κερδομανής

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/ 
  1. लोभी

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  1. vmibe fogódzkodó
  2. vmibe kapaszkodó
  3. vmit fogó
  4. kapzsi
  5. vmit markoló
  6. mohó

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  grasping /ˈgrɑ:spɪŋ/ 
    zachłanny

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  grasping /ɡɹˈaspɪŋ/
  1. haris, tamahkâr, aç gözlü.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɡɹæspɪŋ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  147 Moby Thesaurus words for "grasping":
     a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, acquisitiveness, all-devouring,
     all-engulfing, ambitious for self, autistic, avarice, avaricious,
     avariciousness, avid, avidity, avidness, bloodsucking, bottomless,
     careerist, clamant, clamorous, clinging, coveting, covetous,
     covetousness, crying, cupidity, demanding, desirous, devouring,
     draining, egotistical, esurient, exacting, exigent, exorbitant,
     extortionate, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonous,
     gluttony, gobbling, grabby, graspingness, greed, greediness,
     greedy, gripping, hoggish, hoggishness, holding, importunate,
     incontinence, individualistic, inordinate desire, insatiability,
     insatiable, insatiable desire, insatiate, insistent, instant,
     intemperateness, itching palm, itchy, keeping, limitless, loud,
     lupine, lust, mean, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad,
     narcissistic, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreediness, overgreedy,
     parasitic, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, persistent,
     personalistic, pertinacious, piggish, piggishness, possessive,
     predacious, predatory, prehensile, pressing, privatistic,
     quenchless, rapacious, rapaciousness, rapacity, raptorial,
     ravening, ravenous, ravenousness, remote, retentive, self-absorbed,
     self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered,
     self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming,
     self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied,
     self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient,
     selfish, sharkish, slakeless, sordid, sordidness, stingy, swinish,
     swinishness, taxing, tenacious, tight, tight-fisted, unappeasable,
     unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable,
     unslaked, urgent, venal, voracious, voraciousness, voracity,
     vulturine, vulturous, wolfish, wolfishness
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 抓的,握的,贪婪的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 抓的,握的,贪婪的

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