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[ verb ] hold firmly, usually with one's hands
Synonyms Examples "She clutched my arm when she got scared" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)If his mother loves him , he clings_to that love as a ballast . (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)Many potters clung_to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; the poet of the Iliad deliberately archaized . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)She just_about made me carry her upstairs and_then she clung_to me and would n't let me go . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Her hair was dyed , and her bloom was fading , and she must have been crowding forty , but she seemed to be one of those women who cling_to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)He had gotten stuck_with a job too big for his imagination ; he had to cling_to routine , tested procedures . |
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