Definitions
To grasp tightly, or a tight grasp.
Word origin
From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Used in a sentence
“to clutch power”
“A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.”
“Is this a Dagger, which I ſee before me, [...] ? / Come, let me clutch thee: / I haue thee not, and yet I ſee thee ſtill.”
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01“Grasp tightly”6 letters
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