Clutches

Definition

clutch 1 /klʌtʃ/ v (က) ဖမ္းကိုင္သည္။ ဖမ္းဆုပ္သည္။ He clutched the rope we threw to him. (ခ) တအား ဆုပ္ထား သည္။ ဖက္ထားသည္။ clutch a baby in one's arms ❍ Mary was clutching her doll to her chest. n ၁။ [C] (က) (ယာဥ္၊ စက္)ကလပ္။ let out the clutch (ie when changing gear) ❍ She released the clutch and the car began to move. ❍ CAR (ခ) ေျခနင္းကလပ္။ take one's foot off the clutch. ၂။ clutches [pl] အာဏာစက္။ လက္ခုပ္ တြင္း။ be in sb's clutches ❍ fall into the clutches of sb/sth ❍ have sb in one's clutches ❍ escape from sb's clutches. ၃။ [sing] ဆုပ္ကိုင္ျခင္း။ ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ျခင္း။ ❏ clutch/catch at sth [ PHRV ] လွမ္းဆြ သဲည္။ ဖမ္းဆုပ္သည္။ He clutched at the branch but couldn't reach it. clutch 2 /klʌtʃ/ n (က) ဝပ္က်င္းတစ္က်င္းရိွ ၾကက္ဥ။ (ခ) (ၾကက္ သားအုပ္မ၏)ၾကက္ေပါက္တစ္စု။ (ဂ) တစ္စု။ a clutch of reporters/companies.

Examples

1. Women clutched small children as they left.
2. [clutch at] : An officer stumbled and clutched at the handrail.