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clutch

English

🔊 a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
“this year's model has an improved clutch”
🔊 a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism
“he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other”
🔊 a number of birds hatched at the same time
🔊 a tense critical situation
“he is a good man in the clutch”
🔊 a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand
🔊 a collection of things or persons to be handled together
🔊 the act of grasping
“he released his clasp on my arm”
🔊 affect
“Fear seized the prisoners”
🔊 take hold of
“The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter”
🔊 hold firmly, usually with one's hands
“She clutched my arm when she got scared”