Synonyms for cling to
cling to

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. cling to

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cling to, hold close, hold tight, clutchverb

   hold firmly, usually with one's hands

   "She clutched my arm when she got scared"

   Synonyms:
   get hold of, prehend, hold close, hold tight, clutch, seize

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1. India Walton:

   I won the Democratic primary. I won because I worked hard. I won because people are ready for change. I won because Democrats turned out and voted for me, but we have corporate Democrats who are so desperate to cling to what little power they have left and stave off the progressive wing of our party.

2. James Arthur Baldwin:

   I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

3. Valerie Jarrett:

   I think we have to turn it into a teaching moment, i'm fine. I'm worried about all the people out there who don't have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense. The person who is walking down the street minding their own business and they see somebody cling to their purse, or run across the street, or every black parent I know who has a boy who has to sit down and have a conversation -- the talk -- as we call it. As you say, those ordinary examples of racism that happen every single day.

4. Koichi Nakano:

   It’s a bit like a gambler who already has lost too much, pulling out of it now will only confirm the huge losses made, but carrying on you can still cling to the hope of winning big and taking it all back.

5. Woody Allen:

   It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained, and they still prefer to cling to, if not the notion that I molested Dylan, the possibility that I molested her. Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that.