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clung to

clung to is the simple past and past participle of cling to.

Meaning of cling to

Verb

cling to (third-person singular simple present clings to, present participle clinging to, simple past and past participle clung to)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cling, to.
  2. (broadly) To have an intense emotional dependency on (someone).
  3. (broadly, figuratively) To remain by (someone's) side; to refuse to leave the company of.

Questions about clung to

What is clung to the simple past and past participle of?
Clung to is the simple past and past participle of cling to.

Words near clung to in the dictionary

  1. cluneal
  2. clunealgia
  3. Clunes
  4. clung
  5. clung on
  6. clung to
  7. clung to the skirts of
  8. clunge
  9. clunges
  10. clungest
  11. Clungunford

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clung to (page history and authors); cling to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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