Dictionary Entry
clasp
clasp is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp). Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
- 2transitive verb
To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
- 3transitive verb
To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
- 4noun
An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
- 5noun
A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
- 6noun
the act of grasping
"he released his clasp on my arm"
"he has a strong grip for an old man"
- 7noun
a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together
- 8verb
hold firmly and tightly
- 9verb
grasp firmly
"The child clasped my hands"
- 10verb
fasten with a buckle or buckles
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- 11verb
fasten with or as if with a brooch
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