Usually means: Grasping or holding tightly, essential.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. clutching: Merriam-Webster
  2. clutching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clutching: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clutching, clutching: Wordnik
  5. clutching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clutching: Wiktionary
  7. Clutching, clutching: Dictionary.com
  8. clutching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Clutching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Clutching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. clutching: FreeDictionary.org
  12. clutching: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clutching: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clutching: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Clutching [nutmeg]: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See clutch as well.)

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noun:  The act of one who clutches.

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