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Synonyms for clutch
Synonyms for clutch: grip and seize. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for clutch
Interchangeable with clutch in this sense
Audited under clutch's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one clutch carries in that sense.
- gripverb, in the sense "to hold something tightly, often against the risk of losing it"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name clutch as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- seizeseize is a verb in the sense "take into your hands deliberately"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under clutch and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
to hold something tightly, often against the risk of losing it
She has to clutch her umbrella tightly whenever the wind picks up.
The true synonym
grip
Same sentence, swapped: She has to grip her umbrella tightly whenever the wind picks up.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- wave
- twirl
- toss
Where clutch turns up in the game
clutch is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where clutch is the trap
- fatiguenoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is tiredness, in the sense "temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work", and clutch is on the board beside it.
Play clutch
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so clutch reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other objects words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. clutch carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.