Clings synonyms

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adheres
To stick fast; stay attached
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coheres
To stick or hold together in a mass that resists separation.
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sticks
(Intransitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
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cleaves
To adhere, cling, or stick fast.
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hangs
To attach to a wall:
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hugs
(Figuratively) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
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trusts
Trust is defined as to have confidence, faith or hope in someone or something.
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perseveres
To persevere is to stick with something, even if it becomes difficult.
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maintains
To keep in a condition of good repair or efficiency:
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lingers
To linger is defined as to stay somewhere or to take a long time to do something.
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lasts
To mold or shape on a last.
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holds
To organise an event or meeting.
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fastens
To join (one thing to another); attach; connect
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embraces
To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection.
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depends
​To trust; to rest with confidence; to rely; to confide; to be certain; — with on or upon; as, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends; we depend on the mail at the usual hour.
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clinches
To fix or secure (a nail or bolt, for example) by bending down or flattening the pointed end that protrudes.
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clasps
To hold in a tight embrace.
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cherishes
To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
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unfastens (antonym)
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie; figuratively, to detach from any connecting link or agency; to disconnect.
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detaches (antonym)
To separate or unfasten; disconnect:
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connects (related)
To establish a rapport or relationship; relate:
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Clings Sentence Examples

  • It was formerly the capital of Vogtland, or Voigtland, a territory governed by the imperial vogt, or bailiff, and this name still clings in popular speech to the hilly district in which the town lies.

  • If a drop of water be allowed to form at the extremity of a fine tube, it will go on increasing until its weight overcomes the surface tension by which it clings to the tube, and then it will fall.

  • This is an arrangement recommended by one who has tried it, and he reassures the old-fashioned believer who clings to the less formal regime (and whose protest was voiced in the Montanist movement), that there will be no spiritual loss under the new system.

  • In small flowers which are crowded at the same level or in flat flowers in which the stigmas and anthers project but little, slugs or snails creeping over their surface may transfer to the stigma the pollen which clings to the slimy foot.

  • The educated bourgeoisie, which controls the fields of politics, science, finance, administration, art and literature, does not trouble itself about that great spiritual universal monarchy which Rome, as heir of the Caesars, claimed for the Vatican, and to which the Curia of to-day still clings.

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