Cling To

Definition: Cling To

Cling To

Verb

1. Hold firmly, usually with one's hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cling To

Cooperation

Conduce; combine, unite one;s efforts; keep together, draw together, pull together, club together, hand together, hold together, league together, band together, be banded together; pool; stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one;s heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples.

Desire

Care for, affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to; fancy; prefer; (choose).

Hope

Feel hope, entertain hope, harbor hope, indulge hope, cherish hope, feed hope, foster hope, nourish hope, encourage hope, cling to hope, live in hope; Noun: see land; feel assured, rest assured, feel confident, rest confident; Adjective:

Impulse

Get into the way, get into the knack of; learn; cling to, adhere to; repeat; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into.

Love

Verb: love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love; with Adjective: have a love; n. for, entertain a love; n. for, harbor cherish a love; n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet.

Nearness

Verb: be near; Adjective: adjoin, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug; huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn.

Observance

Verb: observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to, adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office.

Perseverance

Verb: persevere, persist; hold on, hold out; die in the last ditch, be in at the death; stick to, cling to, adhere to; stick to one's text, keep on; keep to one's course, keep to one's ground, maintain one's course, maintain one's ground; go all lengths, go through fire and water; bear up, keep up, hold up; plod; stick to work; (work); continue; follow up; die in harness, die at one's post.

Willingness

Verb: be willing; Adjective: incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief; lend a willing ear, give a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling to; desire.

Crosswords: Cling To

I won't cling to my post. (M�dchen in Uniform; writing credit: Friedrich Dammann; Christa Winsloe)

Your baby has a certain object which he loves to cling to. Should you try to break him of his habit? (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson)

Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

And you cling to the things they sold you (Praying For Time; performing artist: George Michael)

Who can cling to a ramblin' rose? (Ramblin' Rose; performing artist: Nat King Cole)

You ain't gonna cling to me (Hair Of The Dog; performing artist: Nazareth)

Give him to arms to cling to (Stand By Your Man; performing artist: Tammy Wynette)

Stand by your man, give him two arms to cling to ("Stand By Your Man"; performing artist: Tammy Wynette)

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Books

• A Dream to Cling to (Loveswept, No 206) (reference)

• Don't Cling to the Past/Large Print [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Lifelines: A Book of Hope: Some Thoughts to Cling to When Life Brings You Tough Times (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• A Story to Cling To (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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You may break, you may shatter his name if you will; the administration will cling to him still. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nannie Emrick farm near Aledo, Illinois, showing how tree roots cling to soil in gully erosion. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers.

As all children do, like the young shoots of the vine that cling to everything, she had tried to love.

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Health

An infection occurs when microorganisms, usually bacteria from the digestive tract, cling to the opening of the urethra and begin to multiply. (references)

Because the eggs are moist and a bit resistant to drying, they may be able to infect someone for several days after being distributed in dust. They can cling to the fingers of children. (references)

The eggs may be scattered into the air from bed linen and clothing, and can cling to doorknobs, furniture, tubs and faucets, and even food. Although a person may have no symptoms over a long period, episodes of infection may return repeatedly. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cling to": cling to an opinion ♦ cling to hope ♦ cling to one another ♦ cling to smb. ♦ cling to smb. like a bur ♦ cling to the body ♦ cling to the text. Additional references.

Albanian

kapem pas (catch at, cleave, clutch at). (various references)

Chinese 

�' (climb, crawl, dig up, hold on to, pull, push aside, rake, snatch, to strip). (various references)

Czech

viset na kom (cling to smb.), umínìnì trvat na svém názoru (cling to an opinion), přiléhat km tìlu (cling to the body). (various references)

Dutch

zich vastklampen (get caught on), zich vastgrýpen (get caught on), blýven haken (get caught on). (various references)

Esperanto

alkroĉiĝi (get caught on). (various references)

Finnish

tarrautua kiinni johonkin (fasten on). (various references)

German

umklammern (clasp, clinch, embrace, grip, hold, hug, to clasp, to clip, wrap one's arms around), sich klammern an (hang on to, hug), sich hängen an (become attached to, hang on to, set off in pursuit of, stick to). (various references)

Hungarian

tapad valamihez. (various references)

Indonesian

menggemblok, gemblok. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'わり付く (to cling to, to coil, to not leave someone or something alone), 縋り付く (to cling to), 縋る (to cling to, to rely on), 吊り革に掴まる (to cling to a strap), 抱きつく (to cling to), 抱き付く (to cling to, to embrace), 取り縋る (to cling to), 取り付く (to cling to, to grapple with, to possess, to stick to), へばり付く (bungler, clumsy, drunk, greenhorn, poor hand, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to cling to, untrustworthy), 寄り縋る (to cling to, to rely on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すがりつく (to cling to), すがる (to cling to, to rely on), まつわりつく (to cling to, to coil, to coil about, to follow about, to not leave someone or something alone), まとわりつく (to cling to, to coil, to coil about, to follow about, to not leave someone or something alone), つりかわにつかまる (to cling to a strap), よりすがる (to cling to, to rely on), へばりつく (to cling to), とりすがる (to cling to), とりつく (to cling to, to grapple with, to possess, to stick to), � きつく (to cling to, to embrace). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingclay otay

Portuguese

fixar (affix, allocate, append, appoint, assign, clench, define, determine, engrave, fasten, firm, fix, get caught on, impact, joggle, lodge, make fast, nail, pin, pitch, plant, put, record, rivet, root, secure, steady, tie), enganchar (clasp, get caught on, hook, interlock), aferrar (anchor, get caught on, grasp, secure). (various references)

Romanian

se agãţa de (fasten on, fasten upon, hook on), se ţine (be, carry, carry oneself, cling on to smth., hold up), fi fidel faţã de. (various references)

Russian 

облепить (swarm round), льнуть к (stick to). (various references)

Scottish

gramaich (hold, take hold of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

držati se nečega, biti odan nečemu. (various references)

Swedish

hålla fast vid (adhere to, cleave to, hug, maintain, persist). (various references)

Turkish

sülük gibi yapışmak (cling to smb. like a bur, stick like a leech to smb.), metne sadık kalmak (cling to the text). (various references)

adprehendam, adprehendant, adprehendat, adprehende, adprehendebam, adprehendens, adprehendensque, adprehendent, adprehendentes, adprehendentque, adprehendentur, adprehendere, adprehenderent, adprehenderint, adprehenderit, adprehenderunt, adprehendes, adprehendet, adprehendetur, adprehendi, adprehendissent, adprehendisset, adprehendit, adprehendite, adprehensa, adprehensam, adprehensi, adprehensis, adprehensoque, adprehensosque, adprehensum, adprehensumque, adprehensus, hereat, herebat, herens, herentem, heres, inhaero inhero. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coting, tiglon, toling.

-2 letters: cling, coign, colin, glint, incog, ingot, lingo, logic, lotic, nicol, ontic, tigon, tonic.

-3 letters: cion, clit, clog, clon, clot, coil, coin, colt, coni, gilt, icon, into, ling, lino, lint, lion, loci, loin, long, loti, noil, otic, ting, toil, tong.

-4 letters: cig, cog, col, con, cot, gin, git, got, ion, lin.

+1 letter: clothing, clotting, clouting, locating.

+2 letters: blotching, chortling, closeting, clothings, cloturing, collating, colleting, nostalgic, occulting, octupling.

+3 letters: allocating, beclothing, cataloging, clingstone, collecting, colocating, completing, conflating, congenital, consulting, coplotting, copulating, corelating, covetingly, electroing, ethnologic, glaciation, glauconite, lactogenic, locomoting, nostalgics, oncologist, osculating, poulticing, reclothing, relocating, soliciting, splotching, touchingly, unclothing.

+4 letters: antilogical, autoclaving, bootlicking, cataloguing, clingstones, cloistering, coagulating, coagulation, cocktailing, coculturing, cognitional, cognitively, colligating, colligation, collimating, collocating, complecting, complotting, conflicting, congelation, conjugality, controlling, convoluting, correlating, decollating, dislocating, genotypical, glaciations, glauconites, glauconitic, granolithic, hectoringly, helicopting, inoculating, logistician, mislocating, necrologist, neologistic, oncologists, ontological, oscillating, outcaviling, outclassing, outclimbing, outcrawling, outmuscling, outscolding, outslicking, percolating, pitchpoling, politicking, polygenetic, potlatching, protocoling, stockpiling, technologic, telescoping.