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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



... yes, I heard it with my own ears, the Voice. The crabbed tree, that is the main line, dying in me; the grafted tree is the Vaufontaine, the interloper and the mongrel; and the sapling from the same seed as the crabbed old tree"—he reached out as though to clutch Philip's arm, but drew back, sat erect in his chair, and said with ringing decision: "the sapling is Philip d'Avranche, of the ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... gritted through his teeth, as he jabbed the key with frantic haste into the lock. "I'll fix you for this!" He made a clutch at her throat, as he swung ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain? To what, once more, but subtile brain-born feelings of discord can be due all these recent protests against ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James
... accompaniments of the spring branding. That was the picture into which Thorne had suddenly ridden, his face stamped with an excitement in marked contrast to his usual phlegmatic calm. In his mind's eye Stratton could see him clutch Tex Lynch and draw him hastily to one side, could imagine vividly the low-voiced conversation that followed, the hurried saddling of a fresh horse, and the swift departure of ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... this unknown land you encountered parallel fences running across the country. They enclosed nothing, but offered a check to the cattle drifting toward the clutch of the renegades, and an obstacle ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White


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