grasping
gra sping
- n understanding with difficulty
the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings - n the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
- v hold firmly
- v get the meaning of something
- s immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
a grasping old miser
grasping commercialism
- Artificial hands are often hooklike, limited to simple open and close gestures, but the iLimb has more subtle capabilities, like a credit-card grip for grasping narrow objects.
- So our fascination with the crime becomes a populist mania: an obsession with the wreckage of the rich and famous, comeuppance for hubris, a communal grasping for a moral to a .
- But there is comfort in better grasping what has gone wrong, and enlightenment for those around you when they grasp it too.