grasping
1
2.7
- noun
- /ˈɡræspɪŋ/
:
agarre
- Eventually, my grasping fist released the viper, and he and his companion left the buffalo hide.
Examples
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I clutch the thin sheet to my neck, but my father pries it from my grasping fingers.
Fiction book (2000) -
I saw her fall away from him, her arms outstretched for his grasping fingers.
Fiction book (1998) -
And they of course are the main pathways for grasping in most, most fish.
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Grips of such implements may also need to be altered for children with limited grasping skills.
Academic text (1996) -
And that's controlling limb movements involved in exploring, reaching and grasping, OK.
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Only through "visualization," motor interactions with items, and grasping and touching people and objects can blind children form spatial and cognitive organizations of their surroundings.
Academic text (1997) -
Besides reaching paradigms, grasping provides a particularly suitable task to study magnitude-motor interactions, since grasping naturally requires the processing of magnitude-related information.
Academic text (2018) -
Materials: Small cork bulletin board (approximately 17" x 11"), pushpins with plastic tops for easy grasping, and two strips of Braille paper.
Academic text (1997) -
Extending from one end to the other is a great concatenation of human bodies linked by their reaching, touching, grasping, and leaning, each creating a dangerous possibility of human-to-human contagion.
Academic text (2004) -
The child's grasping of the toy showed his developing motor skills.
Synonyms
294
1.0
A firm grip on something
141
8.2
A firm grip on something or a quick way to reach someone
116
1.0
A firm hold on something so it does not slip
59
1.0
A quick action of taking something with your hand
50
1.1
A tight hold with the hand or arm on something
12
4.2
Keeping something that you have or control
4
2.0
Holding and pressing something firmly with your hand
3
3.9
An act of holding something tightly
3
4.2
A quick act of taking something with the hand
3
1.9
A tight hold with the hands or arms
3
4.1
A firm grip with the hands or arms that keeps something from moving
1
9.9
A firm hold with the hand
A tight hold on something using hands or arms
The action of taking hold of something with the hands or tentacles
How Firm
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grasping comes from an old English word grasp meaning 'to seize' or 'to hold', so to grasp something in this sense is literally to take or hold it firmly with your hand.