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Synonyms for cling to
cling to
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 WordNet
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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#2157 | protect | |
#2835 | comfort | |
#3433 | encourage | |
#4200 | nurse | |
#4460 | foster | |
#4776 | harbor | |
#6682 | shelter | |
#6968 | treasure | |
#11162 | clutch | |
#12252 | cheer | |
#14008 | entertain | |
#18031 | seize | |
#22446 | nurture | |
#25495 | cherish | |
#38704 | nourish |
How to use cling to in a sentence?
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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.
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.
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944:
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
There's a risk when [ water managers ] cling to the hope of a big snowpack bailing us out, we need to recognize that there's going to be less water to work with.
Translations for cling to
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- تتشبثArabic
- melekatIndonesian
- 堅持Chinese
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