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Grasping vs Grabbing - What's the difference?

grasping | grabbing |

As verbs the difference between grasping and grabbing

is that grasping is present participle of lang=en while grabbing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between grasping and grabbing

is that grasping is the act of one who grasps or covets while grabbing is the act of one who grabs.

As an adjective grasping

is greedy, eager for wealth.

grasping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Greedy, eager for wealth.
  • * 1990 , (Robert Fagles) (translator), The Iliad :
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * graspingly * graspingness

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

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

    Anagrams

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    grabbing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * attention-grabbing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who grabs.
  • * 2005 , Jeff Metzger, Cubicle Cowboy (page 168)
    • On the way out, all five of us were subjected to an absolute gauntlet of ass-grabbings and crotch-grabbings. I suspected most of the culprits to be transvestites.