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Synonyms for claw
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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. clawnoun

    sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles

    Synonyms:
    hook, chela, nipper, pincer

  2. hook, clawnoun

    a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

    Synonyms:
    hook shot, chela, crotchet, lure, hook, sweetener, claw, nipper, bait, hooking, come-on, pincer, draw

  3. claw, chela, nipper, pincernoun

    a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

    Synonyms:
    pair of tweezers, kid, nestling, tiddler, fry, claw, nipper, hook, pair of pincers, pincer, shaver, tyke, minor, tike, small fry, tweezer, youngster, chela, child

  4. clawverb

    a bird's foot

    Synonyms:
    hook, chela, nipper, pincer

  5. clawverb

    move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging

    "They clawed their way to the top of the mountain"

  6. clawverb

    clutch as if in panic

    "She clawed the doorknob"

  7. clawverb

    scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails

  8. clawverb

    attack as if with claws

    "The politician clawed his rival"

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. clawnoun

    Synonyms:
    talon

  2. clawverb

    Synonyms:
    tear (with the claws), scratch, lacerate, laniate

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. clawnoun

    Synonyms:
    talon, dewclaw

    Associated words:
    ungual, unguicular, retract, retractile, unguiculate, pounced, unguiform

  2. clawverb

    Synonyms:
    scratch, laniate, lacerate

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "claw":

    griffe, devil, scrawl, hook, pincer, pinch, clamp

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How to use claw in a sentence?

  1. Stephen Curry:

    Well have to claw our way to one more win.

  2. Amarnath Amarasingam:

    Their reach will be diminished, their ability to form a real community online will be crippled, and they will spend most of their time simply trying to claw their way back as opposed to producing and disseminating new content keeping neo-Nazis chasing their tail instead of barking at the rest of us is always a good idea.

  3. Behnam Ben Taleblu:

    Relieving sanctions on entities active in funding Irans revolutionary foreign policy, especially under the auspices of trying to claw back a fatally flawed deal that added to Tehrans coffers, would be the definition of a self-imposed strategic setback.

  4. Dwayne Johnson:

    Listen, you've got one shot here, you've got an opportunity -- you've gotta scratch, claw, fight, bite, kick through everything you can to make this happen, it's a back to the wall philosophy and when your back is to the wall every moment in life you have one place to go and that's forward.

  5. Matt Hamilton:

    We never tend to do it the easy way, we like to put our backs up against the wall and try and claw our way out of it.


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