Hyphenation of grasping

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word grasping? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

grasp-ing

Definitions of grasping:

1.	Understanding with difficulty The lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
2.	The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
3.	Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth 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 of grasping:

adj	avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile, acquisitive
noun	understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy
noun	taking hold, seizing, prehension, control

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.