claw

verb

Definition of clawnext
1
as in to burrow

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2
as in to lacerate

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Recent Examples of claw With just weeks remaining in the regular season, the New Jersey Devils (36-25-6) will look to claw their way up the playoff ladder, while the Pittsburgh Penguins (27-31-10) hope to go on a last-minute run to sneak into the postseason. — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025 While Mills clawed its way back, Notre Dame continued to hit 3s at will, seemingly putting the game just out of reach for the Vikings. — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025 Most exciting is the sensation of each of the four wheels digging and grabbing, clawing to put down torque, all metered by fine scripting, virtually no power wasted. — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 Fernandes answered that particular jibe with a free kick that clawed his team back into the game, but their half-time encounter feels emblematic of United’s position in the Premier League food chain: vulnerable and there to be mocked. — Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for claw
Recent Examples of Synonyms for claw
  1. burrow
  2. lacerate
  3. shovel
  4. cut
  5. dredge
  6. bruise
  7. grub
  8. excavate
Verb
  • In the Balsall Heath neighborhood, wind whistles through the puncture marks in one rotting heap where the rats and mice have burrowed in.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The draft apparatus burrows into Boulder this weekend.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Definition of burrow
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  • On the Better Business Bureau’s website, 939 customer reviews give the company an average 1.28 rating out of 5, offering lacerating complaints about dirty and broken equipment, delivery delays, nightmarish customer service, improper billings, and harassing sales and collection calls.
    — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Bong Joon Ho Comments South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite, a lacerating thriller about a family of grifters who overplay their hand, is arguably the greatest film of the past decade.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of lacerate
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  • Thirty-five engineers went down shoveling coal into the boilers to keep the deck lit where lifeboats were being launched and to keep the wireless room powered.
    — Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
  • My husband quickly shoveled a path to our garage and the raccoon was more than grateful for the help.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Definition of shovel
Verb
  • The station also cut from its marketing department and others, resulting in a total 15% cut across the nonprofit.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • While this page supports the goal of cutting red tape and saving tax dollars, every American should be aware that the CFPB, now sidelined, has recovered over $20 billion in financial relief for U.S. consumers since Congress launched it after the 2008 market crash.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Definition of cut
Verb
  • The plan includes 124 projects designed to dredge sand, rebuild degraded marshes, and add levees, floodgates and storm surge barriers.
    — Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Just ask Rick Bragg, who has spent a lifetime in the South cultivating a love story with the dish and forming his own stubborn beliefs about everything from the seasoning to how the chicken is dredged.
    — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of dredge
Verb
  • In surgery, certain risks are universal—infection, hematoma and seroma (collections of blood or fluid under the skin), swelling, bruising, pain, and poor healing, to name a few.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The band is wide enough to avoid creating rolls, while not bruising my armpits with underwire.
    — Andrea Jordan, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
Definition of bruise
Verb
  • Hard-line opposition figures contend that the threats to Maduro’s regime have so far lacked sufficient menace and credibility to scare Maduro’s supporters out of their money-grubbing sloth.
    — Ivan Briscoe, Foreign Affairs, 11 May 2020
  • But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
Definition of grub
Verb
  • Templeton promptly contacted the Mississippi State Geological Survey, whose experts carefully excavated the 600-pound (270 kilograms) artifact.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The complaint did not say if the area was excavated or what was wrapped in the plastic.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of excavate

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