Usually means: Holds objects; controls machinery operation.
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  1. clutches: Merriam-Webster
  2. clutches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clutches: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clutches, clutches: Wordnik
  5. clutches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clutches: Wiktionary
  7. clutches: Dictionary.com
  8. clutches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Clutches: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. clutches: Rhymezone
  11. clutches: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. clutches: FreeDictionary.org
  13. clutches: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. clutches: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clutches: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clutches: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clutches: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clutches: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clutches)

▸ noun:  (usually in the plural) Grasp; possession; control.

Similar:
grip, clench, grasp, hold, clasp, clinch, prehension, grab, seizing, grapplement, more...

Opposite:
release, let go, free, relinquish

Types:
envelope clutch, box clutch, frame clutch, hard case clutch, soft clutch, oversized clutch, metallic clutch, embellished clutch, more...

Phrases:
friction clutches, dog clutches, centrifugal clutches, clutches at straws, where clutches are, more...

Adjectives:
large, small, magnetic, several, multiple, egg, second, evil, positive, most, disc

↻From "Flight Of The Duchess, The" by Robert Browning:

So, at home, the sick tall yellow Duchess
Was left with the infant in her clutches,
1 of 30 verses


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Similar:
grip, clench, grasp, hold, clasp, clinch, prehension, grab, seizing, grapplement, more...

Opposite:
release, let go, free, relinquish

Types:
envelope clutch, box clutch, frame clutch, hard case clutch, soft clutch, oversized clutch, metallic clutch, embellished clutch, more...

Phrases:
friction clutches, dog clutches, centrifugal clutches, clutches at straws, where clutches are, clutches of death, more...

Adjectives:
large, small, magnetic, several, multiple, egg, second, evil, positive, most, disc



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