Word: Clutch
How to pronounce:
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Grasp or seize (something) tightly or eagerly.
Example sentences: "He stood clutching a microphone"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A tight grasp or an act of grasping something.
Example sentences: "She made a clutch at his body"
2. A mechanism for connecting and disconnecting a vehicle engine from its transmission system.
Example sentences: "She let the clutch in and the car surged forward"
3. A slim, flat handbag without handles or a strap.
Example sentences: "Put the accent on femininity with this classy suede-and-lace clutch."
Adjective
Definitions:
1. (in sport) denoting or occurring in a critical situation in which the outcome of a game or competition is at stake.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A group of eggs fertilized at the same time, laid in a single session and (in birds) incubated together.
Example sentences: "They lay fewer than ten eggs in a clutch"
Synonyms:
coupling
traction
sleeve
clutches
arm
friction clutch
grip
friction
ferrule
coupler
grasp
hold
cling
seize
clamp
clasp
clench
clutch bag
block
batch
bunch
knot
parcel
set
crunch
Antonyms:
declutch
decoupling
Derivations:
clutching
clutched
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Clutch in Other Languages...
Spanish: Embrague
German: Griff
French: Embrayage
Italian: Frizione
Turkish: Debriyaj
