CLUTCHED

Definition: CLUTCHED

CLUTCHED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Clutch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CLUTCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Crosswords: CLUTCHED

English words defined with "CLUTCHED": cling to, clutch ♦ hold close, hold tight ♦ jag ♦ prehend ♦ seize. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CLUTCHED": clutched pick-off. (references)

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Modern Usage: CLUTCHED

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	They said they found my high school ring clutched in your fingers tight ("Teen Angel"; performing artist: Mark Dinning)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "CLUTCHED".

Play	Caption
	Hot under the collar; anxious; afraid; aghast; antsy; apprehensive; basket case; bugged; butterflies; careful; choked; clutched; concerned; disquieted; distressed; disturbed; dreading; fearful; fidgety; fretful; hacked; hyper; in suspense; jittery; jumpy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: CLUTCHED

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He clutched the candle and put it on the mantel with such a shock that the flame was almost extinguished and the tallow was spattered upon the wall.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He waited about, his hands clutched behind his back.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: CLUTCHED

"CLUTCHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 93.26% of the time. "CLUTCHED" is used about 341 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	93.26%	318	16,181
Lexical Verb (past participle)	5.87%	20	78,262
Adjective (general or positive)	0.88%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	341	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CLUTCHED

Language		Translations for "CLUTCHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"住 (Catch, Clutching). (various references)

Dutch		inschakelbare sensor (clutched pick-off), inschakelbare detector (clutched pick-off). (various references)

French		agriffai, agriffées, agriffé, agriffèrent, agriffa. (various references)

German		packte (grasped). (various references)

Greek		συμπλέξιμος αισθητήρας (clutched pick-off). (various references)

Italian		sensore a frizione (clutched pick-off). (various references)

Korean		꼭잡�". (various references)

Pig Latin		utchedclay

Portuguese		detector de embraiagem (clutched pick-off). (various references)

Spanish		detector embragable (clutched pick-off), detector de paso colectivo (clutched pick-off). (various references)

Thai		วิตกกังวล (hot and bothered). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CLUTCHED

Misspellings
	"CLUTCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clutchen, Cluther, Culthord, klatched. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CLUTCHED"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "CLUTCHED" (pronounced klu"kht)
3	-u" kh t	touched, untouched.
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Anagrams: CLUTCHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-h-l-t-u"
	-2 letters: chuted, clutch, cultch, dulcet.
	-3 letters: chute, clued, culch, culet, cutch, dutch, educt, letch, luted, teuch.
	-4 letters: celt, clue, cued, cult, cute, delt, duce, duct, duel, duet, etch, held, hued, lech, leud, luce, lude, lute, thud, tule.
	-5 letters: cel, cud, cue, cut, del, due, duh, ecu, edh, eld, eth, het, hue, hut, led, let, leu.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-h-l-t-u"
	+5 letters: shuttlecocked.
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