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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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 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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

















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