Definitions for clasping

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clasping clasp·ing

Spelling: [klas-ping, klah-sping]

IPA: /ˈklæs pɪŋ, ˈklɑ spɪŋ/

Clasping is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 361 anagrams from letters in clasping (acgilnps).

Definitions for clasping

noun

1. a device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing:
2. a firm grasp or grip:
3. a tight embrace:
4. a small bar or metal design, as a star, for affixing to the ribbon of a military decoration to indicate that the bearer has been awarded the decoration an additional time.

adjective

1. (of a leaf) partly or wholly surrounding the stem.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten with or as with a clasp.
2. to furnish with a clasp.
3. to seize, grasp, or grip with the hand:
4. to hold in a tight embrace; hug:

verb (used without object)

1. to embrace or hug:

Origin of clasping

First recorded in 1870-75; clasp + -ing²

Examples for clasping

Yates hastened to meet her, clasping one of her unresisting hands in his.

Dick had no scruple in clasping that extended hand very warmly in his own.

"Oh, my dear," she said, clasping the novel with one hand while she embraced him with the other.

"Thou hast slain the monster," cried Ariadne, clasping her hands.

clasping his hands, the famously private man invoked his concern for the future of his four year old son.

"I have not any hate in me, Joran, I have none," she told him as he sat a few feet from her, clasping his hands.

A wounded woman sat keening on the ground, clasping the body of her dead child in her arms.

For a while she was silent, but her eyes and clasping fingers were restless and showed her agitation.

Then he sat up suddenly, drawing up his knees, and clasping his legs.

So she ran and sat down behind her husband, clasping him round the waist.