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Meanings of cling in English

Portuguese
colar
Catalan
adherir

To come or be in close contact with; to stick or hold together and resist separation.

colar
Spanish
variedad clingstone

Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.

variedad clingstone
Portuguese
agarrar
Spanish
asirse

Hold on tightly or tenaciously.

agarrar
Usage of cling in English
1
I shall be going home soon, and must cling to that thought.
The Asylum
2
This has worrying implications for regimes that hope to cling to power.
The South African
3
We should neither cling to the New Labour label nor condemn it.
The Guardian
4
With the oil find, Museveni now has reason to cling onto power.
Reuters
5
It cannot cling to glass; it must plant its feet in imperfections.
Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
6
Protesters have accused the military of seeking to cling on to power.
Reuters
7
Cover with cling film and let the fish rest for several hours.
Radio NZ
8
If confirmed, the defection would undermine Gaddafi's efforts to cling to power.
Reuters
9
Just look at how other animal mothers cling tightly to their newborns.
The Guardian
10
They could no longer cling to spurious claims about how education corrupts.
The Guardian
11
The two sleepers had woke in time to cling to the mast.
O. T., A Danish Romance
12
But you are wrong; it is useless to cling to the past.
Childhood's End
13
Right about now, it was all he had left to cling to.
Wrangling the redhead
14
Cover with cling fi lm and refrigerate for 30 minutes or overnight.
The Irish Times
15
We work for our place, and we do not have to cling.
Rogues
16
But his critics accused him of trying to cling on to power.
Reuters
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Cling through the time
Cling across language varieties
South Africa
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
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