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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to grasping:   (196 results)

Often used in the same context:
clinging, comprehending, flailing, clutching, bending, dangling, fathoming, wriggling, grabbing, wiggling, tugging, gasping, twisting, clasping, thrusting, wringing, twitching, unclasp, uncurled, imagining, befuddled, articulating, scrabbling, contorted, embracing, conjuring, fumbling, pivoting, waving, squirming, quivering, deciphering, yanking, realizing, flapping, pawing, unhinging, plucking, ossifying, waggling, jabbing, flinging, deducing, sucking, understand, squeezing, shaking, jerking, trembling, discombobulate, bereft, dizzied, discern, scrunching, outstretched, unversed, untangling, semaphoring, looking, bewildered, twirling, clenched, scratching, disentangles, lisped, eliding, cocked, misconceive, dissimulate, tilting, eddying, unhooking, swallowing, poking, floundering, verbalise, treading water, recoil, stumbling, drooling, conveying, clawing, wobbling, panicking, envisioning, panting, quailed, lurching, pirouetting, crooking, juggling, cognize, pinioned, scrambling, holding, unraveling, scoff, thinking, overplaying, extracting, flummoxed, uncross, comprehension, verbalization, memorizing, sending, grasp, recall, rooting, telling, apprehension, checking, memorization, purging, recourse, seeing, stopping, transference, acceptance, answering, erection, selfcentered, acquisitive, restless, lethargic, awakened, egotistic, combative, conquering, covetous, egotistical, gentlest, impulsive, introverted, iny, melancholic, miserly, oversensitive, perverse, quarrelsome

More specific:
clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold

Appears in the definition of:
ceratosaur, ceratosaurus, chelicera, clasp, clench, climb, clutch, clutches, grab, grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron, grasp, grip, handclasp, handshake, handshaking, hold, insight, limb, mantis crab, mantis shrimp, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, shake, sixth sense, snatch, suckling reflex, tackle, tentacle, voracious

More general:
apprehension, control, controlling, discernment, savvy, understanding

Synonyms:
acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile, prehension, seizing, taking hold

Also try:
— Adjectives for grasping: more, intuitive, voluntary, less, most, direct, self, immediate, mere, selfish, mental, more...

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