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adjective

Another term for clavate.

noun

A curved pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot in birds, lizards, and some mammals.

Usage examples:

Stalls sold everything from dried lizards and birds' claws to spanners, nails and toothpaste.
verb

Scratch or tear something with the claws or the fingernails.

Usage examples:

The kitten was clawing at lowell's trouser leg
collocation

To use claws (= the sharp curved nails at the end of each of the toes of some animals and birds) to tear or scratch something

Usage examples:

When our cat is hungry, she starts clawing at my legs., the dog barked and clawed at the door., she…
phrasal verb

Regain a lost advantage or position laboriously and gradually.

Usage examples:

They were committed to clawing back power
noun

An act of retrieving money already paid out, typically by taxation.

Usage examples:

A clawback of tax relief

Clawed

klɔːd
adjective

Having a curved pointed horny nail on each digit.

Usage examples:

A clawed hand grabbed for me
verb

Scratch or tear something with the claws or the fingernails.

Usage examples:

The kitten was clawing at lowell's trouser leg
noun

A hammer with one side of the head split and curved, used for extracting nails.

verb

Scratch or tear something with the claws or the fingernails.

Usage examples:

The kitten was clawing at lowell's trouser leg
noun

A curved pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot in birds, lizards, and some mammals.

Usage examples:

Stalls sold everything from dried lizards and birds' claws to spanners, nails and toothpaste.
noun

A curved pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot in birds, lizards, and some mammals.

Usage examples:

Stalls sold everything from dried lizards and birds' claws to spanners, nails and toothpaste.
verb

Scratch or tear something with the claws or the fingernails.

Usage examples:

The kitten was clawing at lowell's trouser leg
noun

A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.

Usage examples:

The soil is mainly clay
adjective

Containing or resembling clay.

Usage examples:

Moist, clayey soil
noun

A broadsword formerly used by scottish highlanders, typically double-edged.

Usage examples:

Clasped before her in her hands, with its point resting on the mahogany wood, was a large, double-h…
noun

A broadsword formerly used by scottish highlanders, typically double-edged.

Usage examples:

Clasped before her in her hands, with its point resting on the mahogany wood, was a large, double-h…
noun

A shallow depression or hollow in the ground with an impermeable clay base which holds water after rain.

Usage examples:

Our sunset was a non-event, the sun obscured by low cloud, much to the disappointment of a couple o…
noun

A shallow depression or hollow in the ground with an impermeable clay base which holds water after rain.

Usage examples:

Our sunset was a non-event, the sun obscured by low cloud, much to the disappointment of a couple o…
noun

A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.

Usage examples:

The soil is mainly clay
adjective

Not real or genuine; existing in name only.

Usage examples:

Even this clayton's inquiry was forced to highlight major failures
adjective

Free from dirt, marks, or stains.

Usage examples:

The room was spotlessly clean
adverb

So as to be free from dirt, marks, or unwanted matter.

Usage examples:

The room had been washed clean
verb

Make clean; remove dirt, marks, or stains from.

Usage examples:

Clean your teeth properly after meals
noun

An act of cleaning something.

Usage examples:

He gave the room a clean
phrasal verb

Put (things or places) in order

adjective

Free of dirt or other unwanted parts or pieces

Usage examples:

Make sure you wear a clean shirt., hospital rooms have to be kept clean., clean air/water, "let’s m…
adjective

Healthy-looking and active

Usage examples:

The school sports field swarmed with clean-limbed young people eager for the day's events.
adjective

Used to describe someone who lives in a healthy and morally acceptable way, for example, by not taking any drugs

Usage examples:

He is a clean-living teetotaler who doesn't even touch caffeine., young players were expected to be…
phrasal verb

Deprive completely of money or goods

noun

An act of removing the people and parts of an organization that are not needed, wanted, or that are causing problems

Usage examples:

What the nation needs is a vigorous clean-out of the banks' loan books and their managements., staf…
adjective

(of a man) having no beard or mustache on his face

verb

Make clean; remove dirt, marks, or stains from.

Usage examples:

Clean your teeth properly after meals
adjective

Free from dirt, marks, or stains.

Usage examples:

The room was spotlessly clean
adverb

So as to be free from dirt, marks, or unwanted matter.

Usage examples:

The room had been washed clean
noun

An act of cleaning something.

Usage examples:

He gave the room a clean

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