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grasping
'grasping' - used as an adjective
1. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
a grasping old miser
grasping commercialism

'grasping' - used as a noun
2. understanding with difficulty
the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
3. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands
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