Usually means: Seizing or holding firmly; understanding.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. grasping: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. grasping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grasping: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grasping: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grasping: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grasping, grasping: Wordnik
  7. grasping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grasping: Wiktionary
  9. grasping: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grasping: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grasping: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grasping, grasping: Dictionary.com
  13. grasping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Grasping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. grasping: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. grasping: Rhymezone
  17. Grasping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. grasping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. grasping: Free Dictionary
  20. grasping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. grasping: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grasping: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grasping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grasping: Medical dictionary

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  1. grasping: Idioms

(Note: See grasp as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Greedy, eager for wealth.
noun:  The act of one who grasps or covets.

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