Grasping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRASPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• GRASP, to seize firmly with the hand
• seize and hold firmly
• take (an opportunity) eagerly
• comprehend fully
NOUN:
• a firm hold or grip
• understanding with difficulty
• the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
• a person's power or capacity to attain something
• a person's understanding
ADJECTIVE:
• greedy or avaricious
• Seizing; embracing; catching.
• Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

Words related to GRASPING

grasp8 grasped11 graspingly17 grasps9

Words that contain GRASPING

engrasping14 graspingly17 graspingness16 graspingnesses18

How to use GRASPING in a sentence

• It is hard to see how even Carthaginians could have been more cruel, more grasping, more corrupt than the Roman rulers of the provinces.
• He died lest he should do it, and desperately grasping at the universal strength of death, he cast himself and his weakness into the impregnable stronghold of the grave.
• Being a brave boy, he quickly put these unpleasant thoughts out of his mind, and grasping his sword, crawled on his hands and knees into the dark opening.
• This is a theme upon which the most powerful mind may expand itself, stretching from thought to thought, and from object to object, without grasping half the amazing whole.
• He was holding her before him, one hand on her shoulder, the other grasping hers.
• THE MOON OUT OF REACH CHAPTER I THE SHINING SHIP She was kneeling on the hearthrug, grasping the poker firmly in one hand.
• The detective, tired by his night watch, was slow in grasping what had happened.
• Grasping it he advanced on tiptoe, silent as a cat, toward the woman.
• Place another cover board on top, as shown at D, and by grasping with both hands, as shown, turn the drag other side up.
• This has an unpleasant sound, and suggests the man who is generous in public, and hard and grasping in private.
• No more sighing for the unattainable, no more grasping at the intangible, no more clutching at the impalpable.
• A coward fear is grasping my heart with its clammy hands.
• Grasping the rope just above a knot over his head, Tom gave a slight heave, then went rapidly up, hand over hand.
• The result in this first series of designs is especially satisfactory in the intelligence shown in grasping the essentials of the problem.
• Then he staggered to his feet, still tightly grasping the little book, and saying something unintelligible, went out.
• He had accustomed himself to sleep with his revolver under his pillow, his right hand grasping the handle.
• For one awful moment terror paralyzed her, then, grasping her skirts with one hand and her hat with the other and closing her eyes, she slid.
• He was incapable of grasping the lofty personality of the persecuted guest of England.
• Grasping his sword, with one bound he was upon the Earl and, with one blow, shore his neck in two.
• Grasping a torch prepared for him, he set fire to the corners of the pile that covered the remains.

Similar words containing GRASP without suffix ing

grasp8 grasps9 engrasp10 grasped11 grasper10 engrasps11 graspers11 engrasped13 graspable14 graspless12 engrasping14 graspingly17 ungraspable16 graspingness16 graspingnesses18

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