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say it: kluhch
clutch is a noun and verb meaning "the act of grasping". It carries 10 recorded senses.
a number of birds hatched at the same time
a collection of things or persons to be handled together
a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand
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 coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
“this year's model has an improved clutch”
hold firmly, usually with one's hands
“She clutched my arm when she got scared”
affect
“Fear seized the prisoners”
“The patient was seized with unbearable pains”
“He was seized with a dreadful disease”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for clutch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.