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Clutched

Clutch \Clutch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clutched (kl[u^]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Clutching.] [OE. clucchen. See Clutch, n.]

  1. To seize, clasp, or grip with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.

    A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
    --Collier.

    Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . ? Come, let me clutch thee.
    --Shak.

  2. To close tightly; to clinch.

    Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
    --Shak.

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clutched

vb. (en-past of: clutch)

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Clutched

Clutched is a digital media company specializing in the automotive industry. Founded and based in Singapore, the company caters generally towards car-lovers and enthusiasts. The company describes itself as “a car review show” with focus on digital media in order to provide information to “help viewers make the best informed automotive decisions”.

Usage examples of "clutched".

I clutched my oxygen tube as a lo adie crossed over it, and adjusted my mask as his leg caught it, pulling it slightly from my face.

He was cut off by a sudden, agonised groan from Axis, who clutched at his head.

Hands clutched blasters and eyes darted everywhere, waiting impatiently.

One seized Bradley and carried him through the yellow doorway to the roof from whence it rose upon its wide-spread wings and flapped off across the roof-tops of Oo-oh with its heavy burden clutched in its long talons.

A white and shapely arm now pushed past the face into the room, and in the hand, tightly clutched, was the curved blade, smeared with blood, that Bradley had dropped beneath the hides at the moment he had been discovered and drawn from his concealment.

Magic and terror and death released him, the tension breaking with an almost physical shock, and he clutched the slender girl in his arms with a grip that seemed to drive her bones into his and buried his face in her dark hair.

After a bit of maneuvering, she got out with her purse over her shoulder, a grocery bag in one hand, and two department store carryalls clutched in the other.

Followed by the kindergarten attendants, Cheryl Anne clutched the arm of her darling Thud, who clumsily put a plastic tiara on her head and handed her a bouquet of roses.

Putting aside her own emotions, Casey clutched the handkerchief in her fist and watched as the girls curtsied to their escorts and were swept up gracefully in the arms of the young men.

Her I N S I L E NC E 109 hair grew long over the crown of her head, and she clutched the hair to the nape of her neck with a round tortoiseshell comb.

Sitting down carefully in the stoutest chair left in the Hall, the skeleton took up the tome, clutched it to its ribcage with both bony arms enfolded around it, and called on the power of the spell it had cast earlier.

Some exiles carried small bundles that they clutched close, afraid of losing whatever pitiful valuables they had managed to bring with them.

Floyt and clutched desperately at nearby machinery, at console legs, and even tried to get a grip on the floor, his eyestalks squeezed shut, quaking in fear.

A spidery, thin man in a tatty sweater, all elbows and knuckles, his hair standing up as though galvanised, was seated at the table in front of a plate piled high with mashed potato, the mash peppered with sausagesand a brand new bottle of the ubiquitous British brown sauce clutched in his hand ready to gloop.

He clutched at the leg with one hand and went for his gemstones, for the healing hematite, with the other.