the act of gripping something firmly with the hands;
understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings";
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 greed;
