Clung
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intransitive verb.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Preterit and past participle of
cling.
To cling.
To shrink; waste.
Shrunken; emaciated; wasted to leanness; shrunk.
[Cf.
strong
as related to
string.
] Strong.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
imp. & p. p. of
cling
.
adjective.
Wasted away; shrunken.
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verb.
Simple past of
cling
.
verb.
Past participle of
cling
adjective.
wasted away
;
shrunken
Word Usage
"No stain clung to an aviator more than a blue-on-blue kill."
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
Sung
Young
among
bung
dung
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
shrunken
variant
cling
verb-stem
cling