What is the meaning of grasping?

noun

• Understanding with difficulty.
  • usage: "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
• The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles.
  • synonyms: taking hold, seizing, prehension

verb

• Hold firmly.
  • synonyms: grasp, hold on
• Get the meaning of something.
  • usage: "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter"
  • synonyms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend

adjective

• Immoderately desirous of acquiring e. G. Wealth.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile