Crossword clues for clawed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Claw \Claw\ (kl[add]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clawed (kl[add]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Clawing.] [AS. clawan. See Claw, n.]
To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
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To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.]
Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise.
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To rail at; to scold. [Obs.]
In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation.
--T. FullerClaw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old proverb.
--Tyndale.To claw away, to scold or revile. ``The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it.''
--L'Estrange.To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.)
--Chaucer.To claw (one) on the gall, to find fault with; to vex. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Clawed \Clawed\ (kl[add]d), a.
Furnished with claws.
--N. Grew.
Wiktionary
having claws (gloss: of animals) v
(en-past of: claw)
WordNet
adj. having a claw or claws; often used as a combining form; "sharp-clawed"
of animals [syn: taloned]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "clawed".
Tombstone rammed the throttles forward to full afterburner and clawed for altitude once more.
Hrulga is a four-legged animallike a horsebut it has fangs instead of teeth, and clawed feet instead of hooves.
Takan screamed and babbled, clearly more seriously affected as they both batted and clawed at themselves, as if trying to brush off Spitting The things were spitting.
She clawed and tore the bedcover to shreds as they climaxed together hard and strong.
Steel bolts had been necessary to hold the bicephalic head together, but when Coatlicue was carefully raised to her clawed feet, she was whole.
She screamed out her rage and clawed furiously at the burrs with her mind fingers, clubbed at those shapeless malevolences.
One of the vines that clawed its way around the trunk of the tallest tree, whose crown was out of sight among the other vegetation, had cuplike flowers of ivory pink, attracting hordes of small turquoise insects.
The two carriers, ten miles apart in the center of their circular task group formations, came around into the wind and the waiting Wildcats at ten-second intervals snarled down the decks, hopped into the air, pointed their noses sharply up and clawed for altitude.
The Doberman squirmed, snarled, snapped at the stool, clawed at the floor, clawed at the door, kicked, frantic to escape its trap.
In darkness and smoke, he clawed at the straps, freed the facepiece, dragged hard at the air.
The firedrake, with its powerful, low-slung build and flexible clawed feet could negotiate such terrain, but Blade knew it would be nothing short of murder to send his men up there on such a night as this, with the wind ravening like a howling, ice-fanged demon and the precipitous rocks treacherous and slick with ice and snow.
Granite flowed outward through wings, down a long neck, into clawed feet.
Realizing what was going on, though, I clawed hurriedly at my belt, noting that my hands seemed smaller and hairier, the fingers shorter.
When his lips brushed hers, heartbreakingly gentle, anguish clawed inside her.
In Africa there were archaic-looking long-necked giant herbivores and creatures like hippos with fat, low-slung bodies and powerfully clawed thumbs.