0 past simple and past participle of clutch --
1 to take or try to take hold of something tightly, usually in fear, worry, or pain: --
How many parents last night will have clutched their own children to them, looking at them differently and imagining the pain which, for others, is all too real?
I saw not only one but about four of them with telephones clutched to their ears as soon as they hit a stretch of open road.
Suddenly they have taken it and clutched it to their bosoms as a way of repressing people.
One day that child crawled under the computer table, clutched a radiator and would not come out.
Everywhere we go, people with mobile phones clutched to their ear are holding inane conversations for everyone else to hear.
The first is that capital is not just clutched out of the sky.
The harder he blew, the more the man clutched his overcoat.
That was one of the main fig-leaves that he clutched when trying to protect his failures in teacher recruitment.
