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clutches - definition and meaning
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun noun clutch{2} .
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noun clutch .noun usually plural Grasp ; possession; control.verb clutch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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How Mary, with the help of a loyal servant, struggled to escape Stoney's clutches is the breathless and inspirational climax of this fine book
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I'm just curious - given the environment that we are in, it seems like the repel market and the short-term in general are destiny to continuously run into these short-term clutches .
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You are the one who will be in clutches if you do that:}
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To get his victim into his clutches is a deed of daring and of peril demanding no little praise, upon the principles of the world's "code of honor."
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To get his victim into his clutches is a deed of daring and of peril demanding no little praise, upon the principles of the world's "code of honor."
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In pretty much the same way that the Berlin wall was a one-way route (i.e. out of E. Germany and into the West) I don't think I've ever heard of desperate Israeli Arab citizens trying to smuggle themselves through the tunnels and/or over the wall in order to get into Gaza/West Bank and out of the 'clutches ' of Israel.
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Keen-eyed officers detect the mutton-bones which tell of unauthorised ovicide, and "clutches " of geese and chickens vanish as if by magic.
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He never arrived in time to rescue Caroline from "clutches "; nor did he even marry her.
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Larger frames: Stick to medium-sized accessories such as clutches and totes in bright colours.
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SILIGURI, 11 SEPT: With the curtain dropping on a most vituperative campaigning trail in the electoral history of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, the parties across the SILIGURI, 26 AUG: The Congress and the Trinamul Congress are taking the Siliguri Municipal time and would spare no pains to try and wrest the civic board from the 'clutches ' of the
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