clawed

past tense of claw

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clawed
Verb
  • Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Soaked in a meaty mushroom stock, dredged in flour, and dunked in buttermilk, these crispy, tender mushrooms are extra delicious.
    Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Other fresh fish were lightly dredged in flour, fried, baked, and then garnished with parsley and black walnuts.
    Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Overall, the inflation data likely add fuel to expectations that the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by another quarter percentage point at its policy meeting later this month - its second consecutive cut.
    NPR, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Superstar Shohei Ohtani launched a two-run shot to cut the lead down to 11-4, but the momentum still appeared to be on the Blue Jays' side in a raucous Rogers Centre.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The partial skeleton was excavated from Koobi Fora in Kenya.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • When an unknown person filled in the hole last year, Good Samaritans immediately excavated it.
    Mason Leath, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Fake blood in color films Prop makers striving for realism and nuance chafed under the restrictions of early film technology.
    Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Several high-profile managers, who chafed at a more structured environment under the new owners, departed.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Generations of workers have fretted about the future of Social Security, the retirement trust fund.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Even environmentalists like Al Gore who once fretted about catastrophic accidents and radioactive waste are warming to the technology.
    Brad Plumer, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Her words so galled many on the left, each column became a source of knee-jerk opposition online.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The fact that criminals would seek to take advantage of an old man’s lack of sophistication about the workings of the internet galled Tejasvi.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Another nearby dog has barked since Mancl and his wife moved in four years ago.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Toward the end of his game-winning drive Sunday, Mac Jones received the play from the sideline, barked it to teammates, then turned to one of his two favorite targets on the day, Christian McCaffrey.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Clawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clawed. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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