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								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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