Definitions for clung

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Spelling: [kluhng]

IPA: /klʌŋ/

Clung is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in clung (cglnu).

Definitions for clung

noun

1. the act of clinging; adherence; attachment.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cling1 .

verb (used without object)

1. to adhere closely; stick to:
2. to hold tight, as by grasping or embracing; cleave:
3. to be or remain close:
4. to remain attached, as to an idea, hope, memory, etc.:
5. to cohere.

Origin of clung

before 900; Middle English clingen, Old English clingan to stick together, shrink, wither; akin to clench

Examples for clung

She clung to appearances with a tenacity that nothing could shake.

And her eyes fastened on Robin; they clung to him and wouldn't let him go.

With more than 88 percent of precincts reporting, Hanna clung to a six-point lead.

But Kate has clung to her middle-class roots and middle-class ideas of child-rearing defiantly.

He had forgotten it was not to him his soul had clung, but to the father of both.

She clung to him so that he could not help feeling himself her protector.

Unlike every other island in the region that abandoned sugar production generations ago, St. Kitts clung to it until recently.

I cried out, and in a foolish effort to save him, I must have let go of the ledge to which I clung.

The first run, I just clung to the fence as the bulls passed.

Sierra had clung to life for seven weeks before finally succumbing to her wound.