Crossword-Solution: GRASPING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Grasping | a. | Seizing; embracing; catching. |
| Grasping | a. | Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. |
We have 55 clues for the answer “GRASPING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| understanding with difficulty | 1 answer |
| extorting | 2 answers |
| Comprehending | 3 answers |
| usurious | 3 answers |
| mingy | 5 answers |
| Prehensile ___ | 8 answers |
| grabby | 8 answers |
| unquenchable | 8 answers |
| on the make | 9 answers |
| hoggish | 12 answers |
| hoarding | 20 answers |
| envious | 22 answers |
| Itchy | 23 answers |
| materialistic | 27 answers |
| Plundering. | 27 answers |
| raptorial | 27 answers |
| ravening | 28 answers |
| hawklike | 28 answers |
| predacious | 29 answers |
| ravaging | 29 answers |
| grabbing | 29 answers |
| Avid | 30 answers |
| thieving | 30 answers |
| pillaging | 31 answers |
| extortionate | 32 answers |
| Taking | 34 answers |
| Itching | 34 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| desirous | 35 answers |
| insatiable | 36 answers |
| Jealous | 36 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| sheltering | 39 answers |
| gripping | 40 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| shielding | 40 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| Ungenerous | 41 answers |
| penurious | 42 answers |
| Defensive | 42 answers |
| Parsimonious | 42 answers |
| avaricious | 44 answers |
| maternal | 44 answers |
| grudging | 44 answers |
| despotic | 44 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| on heat | 46 answers |
| Mercenary | 47 answers |
| Stingy | 51 answers |
| Domineering | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRASPING (5)
Full soon Among them he arriv’d; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand Thunders, which he sent Before him, such as in thir Soules infix’d Plagues; they astonisht all resistance lost, All courage; down thir idle weapons drop’d; O’re Shields and Helmes, and helmed heads he rode Of Thrones and mighty Seraphim prostrate, That wish’d the Mountains now might be again Thrown on them as a shelter from his ire.
Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways.
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Grasping my long-sword tightly in my hand, I backed slowly along the corridor away from the thing that watched me, but ever as I retreated the eyes advanced, nor was there any sound, not even the sound of breathing, except the occasional shuffling sound as of the dragging of a dead limb, that had first attracted my attention.
Grasping my sword more firmly in my hand, I called to the red man at the opening to the runway to stand aside.
Quotes with GRASPING (3)
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.
So, Belle, what's new today?" Dad," I said, grasping his hands and looking directly into his eyes. "I'm in the deepest love that has ever occurred in the history of the world." Gosh, Belle. When someone asks you 'What's new?' the correct answer is 'Not much'. Besides, isn't it a little soon to cut yourself off from the rest of your peers, depending on a boyfriend to satisfy your social needs as opposed to making friends? Imagine what would happen if something forced that boy …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2010).