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clutchings

/ˈklʌt͡ʃɪŋz/

clutchings is the plural of clutching.

Meaning of clutching

Noun

clutching (plural clutchings)

  1. The act of one who clutches.
    • At sight of it there commenced a series of laryngeal spasms, with clutchings at his throat, far more violent than any I had heretofore seen.1871, Journal of Psychological Medicine, volume 5, page 83

Questions about clutchings

What is clutchings the plural of?
Clutchings is the plural of clutching.
How do you pronounce clutchings?
Clutchings is pronounced /ˈklʌt͡ʃɪŋz/.

Words near clutchings in the dictionary

  1. clutchfist
  2. clutchfists
  3. clutching
  4. clutching one's pearls
  5. clutchingly
  6. clutchings
  7. clutchless
  8. clutchless manual transmission
  9. clutchless manual transmissions
  10. clutchman
  11. clutchmate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clutchings (page history and authors); clutching (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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