0 past simple and past participle of clasp
1 to hold someone or something firmly in your hands or arms:
A skeleton clasped me in its fleshless arms.
She felt it probe inside and let her weight rest there, then she clasped him tighter and stopped thinking ' ' (39).
In general, they depict excessively fat individuals with enormous swollen bellies clasped by the figure's arms and legs.
Cross one ankle over the other, the hands are then crossed, clasped and inverted.
Once mating began, the male released his grasp of the two anterior pairs of legs and held them clasped to his body, and the female became quiescent.
He stretched out his hand and grasped mine; then he clasped my hand with both of his.
They sit with hands clasped, with nothing to do.
Those two great monarchs clasped hands of friendship and of affection, and that might and ought to be the symbol and emblem of the whole of the two nations.
