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clem

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4 lettersPronunciation /klɛm/Sorted celmStarts with CEnds with M0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. To be hungry; starve.

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English *clemmen, *clammen, from Old English clemman, clæmman (“to press, surround”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch klemmen (“to jam, pinch, stick”), German klemmen (“to jam, clamp; to be stuck, stick [to a surface]”).

Used in a sentence

  • "[…] Here he's back home again, and without work, and without a penny, and thou knows t' little one and I were pretty well clemmed to death when thou got us a bit o' bread and meat last night. We were that!"
  • Who are half clemmed from year’s end to year’s end, and see no close to it, no hope, no finish but the pauper’s deals!

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