clawed

verb

past tense of claw
1
as in burrowed

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2
as in lacerated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clawed
  1. dredged
  2. lacerated
  3. excavated
  4. cut
  5. chafed
  6. fretted
  7. galled
  8. barked
Verb
  • Less than two miles long and a third of a mile wide, the islet was created from sand dredged from the river in the 1960s when the Elbe was deepened to allow container ships to travel upriver to port in Hamburg.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Seasonal sand berms to limit coastal flooding and protect public safety will begin to go up along the beach in the next week, and the San Dieguito Lagoon inlet will also be dredged, likely in the first two weeks of November.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of dredged
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  • The man’s muscles and skin were lacerated by the bear’s claws and teeth.
    — Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Corbin fractured his jaw in two places, busted his upper arm, and lacerated his lip.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of lacerated
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  • The last set of stairs, which lead to the basement that the couple excavated, is contemporary.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Chemicals were removed from the home, as well as a segment of underground pipe was excavated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of excavated
Verb
  • For decades, the European Union has led the world in implementing policies designed to cut emissions, creating the world’s most important price on carbon and crafting the rules of the road for a wide range of regulatory efforts.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Staff cut raw chicken and then proceeded to cut lamb without washing, rinsing and sanitizing cutting boards and prep tables.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of cut
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  • Through it all, Nussbaum chafed at the circumscribed role of women.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • They were married from 1976 to 1982, as Taylor chafed against the confines of being a politician’s wife following Warner’s election to the Senate in 1979.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of chafed
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  • Ultimately, the C-suite led with the name that signaled quality to the widest set of possible consumers (even if execs privately fretted about diluting the good name of HBO with a streaming service featuring thousands of shows of varying quality).
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Calls for a slowdown in artificial intelligence development sparked a global sell-off in technology stocks on Monday, as investors fretted over the sustainability of spending in a sector that has driven financial markets to record highs.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of fretted
Verb
  • Bundle is also galled by Lady Coote’s refusal to mention at the inquest that the fatal sleeping draft was from a bottle she’d given to her sleepless maid, Emily.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • From Warriors coach Steve Kerr, to future Hall of Famers Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green, to 25-year-old relative newcomers Quinten Post and Trayce Jackson-Davis, the team’s lack of competitive fire galled the Warriors.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Definition of galled
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  • The upstairs neighbors had two mastiffs who were left home all day and who barked incessantly and scratched at the floor of their kennel.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • After the top of the ninth, Orioles reliever Cam Sanders barked at the Red Sox dugout, leading Ceddanne Rafaela and Jarren Duran to shout back from the top step, but nothing more transpired.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of barked
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“Clawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clawed. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

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