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 If the Biden administration had already doled out the money, Trump and Congress could not easily claw it back. — German Lopez, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025 Boswell clawed its way back and took a brief 15-13 lead when Salena Carrasco buried a three-pointer with 2:58 left in the second quarter. — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2025 That meant we were given a warts-and-all window into her endless humiliations, on camera and off, as Valerie attempted to claw her way back into the limelight. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025 Temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit while migrants screamed and banged the walls of the trailer for help or tried to claw their way out, investigators said. — CBS News, 16 Jan. 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
  • Once eaten by a human, the L3 larvae try to complete their life cycle by burrowing into tissue out of the intestines to get to the brain, traveling either through the blood or along nerves.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Scientists think that plastics can disrupt this layer, burrowing between the tight junctions that hold the intestinal cells together.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of burrow
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  • 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
  • Everything that follows, however, is emotionally lacerating, conveyed on the children’s distraught, confused faces, and hitting Dad like a ton of bricks.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
Definition of lacerate
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  • Just fill up a wheelbarrow with compost and shovel 3 to 4 shovelfuls of compost into small piles dotted across your lawn.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
  • More:How to shovel snow without causing injury: Visual guide How much does snow weigh?
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
Definition of shovel
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  • Within the scheme’s first week, traffic had fallen by 7.5%, with 273,000 fewer cars entering Manhattan’s central business district, and travel times on inbound river crossings had been cut by more than a third, leading to faster bus journeys.
    — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • But dramatically cutting calories isn’t practical for most people.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of cut
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  • Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour, shaking off excess.
    — Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Rather than simply dredging the sea floor and dumping the soil back into the ocean elsewhere, all materials are reused for land reclamation or infrastructure projects.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Mar. 2025
Definition of dredge
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  • As a result, wounds take longer to heal, and people with hemophilia may bruise easily.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Toddler stools shouldn’t leave children bruised or with brain injuries.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of bruise
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  • 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
  • The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie as told by Craig Brown Air Supply The Constant Gardener Spring is in the air, and AIR SUPPLY’s latest collection is ripe for the picking.
    — airmail.news, airmail.news, 23 Mar. 2024
Definition of grub
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  • Researchers began excavating the Xiongan site in 2017, working their way from the outer city to the inner city and discovering the Tang Dynasty temple where the dragon was found in 2023 as well as other ceramics and Buddhist relics.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Streaming Snafu Update: Hulu Apologizes for Technical Issues The dig’s project manager is a portly white guy who is well intentioned, if awkward, in trying to befriend the construction workers excavating the site.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of excavate

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