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clutchnoun1 a number of things considered as a unita clutch of medals adorned the general's chest array, assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery, block, bunch, clot, clump, cluster, collection, constellation, group, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, muster, package, parcel, passel, set, suite accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomerationagglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, varietycycle, run, series, suit the whole kit and caboodle entity, item, single, unit a usually small number of persons considered as a unita clutch of people traveling together array, band, batch, battery, body, boodle, bunch, cluster, consort, constellation, crop, group, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, parcel, party, passel assembly, collective, congregation, gathering, muster, organizationcircle, clan, clique, coterie, fellowship, gang, ring, round, setfaction, guild(also gild), order, school, sectbrigade, crew, outfit, phalanx, platoon, posse, task force, teamalliance, bloc, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, league, unionbattalion, squadronbevy, brood, covey the whole kit and caboodle individual, single a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive actiona football quarterback who always comes through in the clutch boiling point, breaking point, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, tinderbox, zero hour contingency, possibilityclimax, turning pointhappening, landmark, milestonecondition, pass, situation, straitdeadlock, impasse, stalematecorner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, last ditch, pinch, predicament, scrape, spoteleventh hour, last minute moment of truth, point of no return the right or means to command or control othersa nation no longer living in the clutch of a cruel tyrant arm, authority, command, control, death grip, dominion, grip, hold, mastery, power, reign, rein(s), sway clout, influence, leverage, pull, voice, weightjurisdictiondirection, managementdominance, imperium, predominance, sovereignty(also sovranty), supremacyprerogative, privilege, righteminence, importance, moment impotence, impotency, powerlessness helplessness, weakness to have or keep in one's handshe clutched the eggs carefully so he wouldn't drop them clench, cling (to), grip, hold bear, carrybag, capture, catch, collar, corral, grab, grapple, hook, land, latch (on or onto), nab, nail, seize, snap (up), snare, snatch, take, trapfeel, finger, handle, pawclasp, embrace, grasp, hugcradle hang on to, hold on to drop, give, hand, unclasp, unhandcede, deliver, give up, hand out, hand over, release, relinquish, render, turn over, yield v.take, seize, grasp, clutch, snatch, grab mean to get hold of by or as if by catching up with the hand.take is a general term applicable to any manner of getting something into one's possession or control.take some salad from the bowl seize implies a sudden and forcible movement in getting hold of something tangible or an apprehending of something fleeting or elusive when intangible.seized the suspect grasp stresses a laying hold so as to have firmly in possession.grasp the handle and pull clutch suggests avidity or anxiety in seizing or grasping and may imply less success in holding.clutching her purse snatch suggests more suddenness or quickness but less force than seize.snatched a doughnut and ran grab implies more roughness or rudeness than snatch.grabbed roughly by the arm before the 12th century |