claw 的 4 个定义
- a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird.
- a similar curved process at the end of the leg of an insect.
- the pincerlike extremity of specific limbs of certain arthropods: lobster claws.
- (7)
- to tear, scratch, seize, pull, etc., with or as if with claws: The kitten clawed my sweater to shreds.
- to make by or as if by scratching, digging, etc., with hands or claws: to claw a hole in the earth.
- to proceed by or as if by using the hands: He clawed his way through the crowd.
- to scratch, tear, or dig with or as if with claws: The cat clawed and hissed in fear.
- to make fumbling motions: He clawed at the door. She clawed for the light switch.
- Scot. to scratch gently, as to relieve itching.
- claw back. See entry at clawback.
claw 近义词
nail of animal; tool shaped like nail of an animal
using sharp nail
更多claw例句
- Try not to use a towel for this, as bats’ tiny claws can get caught in the fabric’s loops.
- At first glance, it appeared to be the scene of a classically gruesome bear mauling—gnashing jaws, torn flesh, crushed bones, the grim outcome of pitting fist against claw.
- I curled my hand into a cat’s claw and looked, unsure what I was looking for.
- Some have killer claws or jaws, some have camouflage, some taste bad or spew poison.
- It’s apparent in the claw back from a 4-9 start to conference play.
- My sisters Rosa and Liz called it “the claw,” lovingly at times, and at other times I was not so sure.
- The dragon, now dangling by a claw from the edge of the sand tray, is on the cusp of defeat.
- My personal favorite—by which I mean least favorite—is the still-underrated phenomenon of selfie claw hand.
- Are we looking at some sort of formal discrimination – a Jim Claw system?
- Yes, the agency did try to claw back some of the money it gave out after Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, reports Michael Moynihan.
- In the middle of his singing he felt the cold touch of the Crab's claw on the apple of his throat.
- The woman holds in her claw-like hand a half-empty bottle of cheap red wine.
- She laughed still more when the parrot took a piece of cake in his claw, and ate it, bit by bit, as nicely as she could herself.
- Two of the fingers, or the thumb and finger had been enlarged or grafted into a bone-like semblance of a crab's claw.
- A dying man raised one horrible crab claw to me, called out my name!