Thesaurus
cling (to)
Synonyms and Antonyms of cling (to)
- continued to cling to the old ideas of child rearing long after they had gone out of fashion
abandon, abnegate, desert, forsake, give up, relinquish, spurn, surrender
abjure, recall, recant, reconsider, renege, renounce, retract, revoke, take back, unsay, withdraw
controvert, disagree (with), disprove, dispute, rebut, refute
contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, repudiate
- clung to a pole in the subway car to keep from falling as it lurched along
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