Dictionary Entry
claw
claw is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
- 2noun
The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
- 3noun
Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
- 4noun
A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
- 5noun
To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
- 6noun
To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.
- 7noun
To rail at; to scold.
- 8intransitive verb
To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.
- 9noun
a bird's foot
- 10noun
sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- 11noun
a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- 12noun
a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
Synonyms
- 13verb
attack as if with claws
"The politician clawed his rival"
- 14verb
clutch as if in panic
"She clawed the doorknob"
- 15verb
scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails
- 16verb
move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging
"They clawed their way to the top of the mountain"
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