clinging
/ˈklɪŋɪŋ/ noun C2- The act of one who clings.
Plural clingings
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Then, before he could pull it out again—or let go—the raft was swept away, and the poor Scarecrow was left clinging to the pole in the middle of the river.
Marilla disengaged Anne’s clinging hands stonily.
Allan, clinging to that slippery old pile with no way of getting up or down.
Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying forms and heard their shrieks.
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