transcription, транскрипция: [ klʌtʃ ]
( clutches, clutching, clutched)
1.
If you clutch at something or clutch something, you hold it tightly, usually because you are afraid or anxious.
I staggered and had to clutch at a chair for support...
She was clutching a photograph.
= grasp, grip
VERB : V at n , V n
2.
If someone is in another person’s clutches , that person has captured them or has power over them.
Stojanovic escaped their clutches by jumping from a moving vehicle.
= grasp
N-PLURAL : usu with poss
3.
In a vehicle, the clutch is the pedal that you press before you change gear.
Laura let out the clutch and pulled slowly away down the drive.
N-COUNT
4.
to clutch at straws: see straw