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Clutch   /klətʃ/   Listen
Clutch

noun
1.
The act of grasping.  Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutches, grasp, grip, hold.  "He has a strong grip for an old man" , "She kept a firm hold on the railing"
2.
A tense critical situation.
3.
A number of birds hatched at the same time.
4.
A collection of things or persons to be handled together.  Synonym: batch.
5.
A woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand.  Synonym: clutch bag.
6.
A pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism.  Synonym: clutch pedal.
7.
A coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism.
verb
(past & past part. clutched; pres. part. clutching)
1.
Take hold of; grab.  Synonyms: prehend, seize.  "She clutched her purse" , "The mother seized her child by the arm" , "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"
2.
Hold firmly, usually with one's hands.  Synonyms: cling to, hold close, hold tight.
3.
Affect.  Synonyms: get hold of, seize.  "The patient was seized with unbearable pains" , "He was seized with a dreadful disease"



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"Clutch" Quotes from Famous Books



... How now noble Pompey? What, at the wheels of Csar? Art thou led in triumph? What is there none of Pigmalions Images newly made woman to bee had now, for putting the hand in the pocket, and extracting clutch'd? What reply? Ha? What saist thou to this Tune, Matter, and Method? Is't not drown'd i'th last raine? Ha? What saist thou Trot? Is the world as it was Man? Which is the way? Is it sad, and few words? Or how? ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... tent; a wailing, broken-hearted pleading in the harmonious Spanish tongue, and then two figures tumbled out into the light of the lanterns. One was the old woman; the other was a man clothed with a sumptuous and flashing splendour. The woman seemed to clutch and beseech from him something against his will. The man broke from her and struck her brutally back into the tent, where she lay, whimpering and invisible. Observing Tansey, he walked rapidly to the table where he sat. Tansey recognized him to be Ramon Torres, a Mexican, the ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... beneath a careless touch; Endurance hardens with a word; She holds a trifle with a clutch So strangely, childishly absurd, That he who ...
— The Mistress of the Manse • J. G. Holland
... terrible; her piercing black eyes had the glare of the tiger's; her face was like that we ascribe to a pythoness; she set her teeth to keep them from chattering, and her whole frame quivered convulsively. She had pushed her clenched fingers under her cap to clutch her hair and support her head, which felt too heavy; she was on fire. The smoke of the flame that scorched her seemed to emanate from her wrinkles as from the crevasses rent by a volcanic eruption. It ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
... the hundred men in the troop carried a rifle balanced across his saddle pommel; each was dressed in the garb of the range-rider; and the face of each, glimpsed by the light from some window or doorway, was grimly stern. The sight was one calculated to make Fear clutch like an ice-cold hand at the hearts of those with guilty consciences; a spectacle which induced such respectable men as saw it to arm themselves and fall in behind the advancing line. These knew without being ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony


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