grasping

Etymology

adj

  1. Greedy, eager for wealth.
    Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere. 1990, Robert Fagles, transl., The Iliad

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of grasp

noun

  1. The act of one who grasps or covets.
    These are my connections, my attachments. Maybe all I really am is the sum of all these connections, these fearful longings and graspings. 2009, Jed McKenna, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment

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