claw
/klɔ/ verb C2- To scratch or to tear at.
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
- To use the claws to climb.
- To perform a claw catch.
- To move with one's fingertips.
He/she/it claws · Past clawed · Past participle clawed · -ing form clawing
Verb forms
- Base form
- claw
- He/she/it
- claws
- Past
- clawed
- Past participle
- clawed
- -ing form
- clawing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Talon and tush and claw.
I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds, and clawed the air with both his hands.
But one fine day I learned that the mover of this telegraph was only a poor wretch, hired for twelve hundred francs a year, and employed all day, not in studying the heavens like an astronomer, or in gazing on the water like an angler, or even in enjoying the privilege of observing the country around him, but all his monotonous life was passed in watching his white-bellied, black-clawed fellow insect, four or five leagues distant from him.
Unit 7 stood nearby, holding a small watering can in its shiny metallic claw.
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