Synonyms for cling
klɪŋcling

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1. cling

   Synonyms:
   fasten, hold, adhere, embrace, stick, cleave, hang, twine, hug

   Antonyms:
   drop, recede, secede, apostatize, abandon, relax, forego, swerve, surrender

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1. cling, clingstoneverb

   fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit

   Synonyms:
   clingstone

2. cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohereverb

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

   "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"

   Synonyms:
   stand by, stupefy, stick by, baffle, stick, perplex, cleave, bond, get, mystify, flummox, bind, beat, stick around, nonplus, rive, dumbfound, split, lodge, sting, hold fast, deposit, amaze, stick to, stay put, gravel, cohere, stay, hang, bewilder, wedge, vex, pose, puzzle, adhere

3. clingverb

   to remain emotionally or intellectually attached

   "He clings to the idea that she might still love him."

   Synonyms:
   cohere, hang, stick, adhere, cleave

4. cling, hangverb

   hold on tightly or tenaciously

   "hang on to your father's hands"; "The child clung to his mother's apron"

   Synonyms:
   cleave, pay heed, advert, string up, give ear, stick, cohere, attend, adhere, flow, hang up, fall, hang

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1. clingverb

   Synonyms:
   adhere, hold, stick, cleave, be attached, hold fast

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1. clingverb

   Synonyms:
   adhere, cleave, hold fast

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1. List of paraphrases for "cling":

   latchon

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How to use cling in a sentence?

1. Koichi Nakano:

   It’s a bit like a gambler who already has lost too much, pulling out of it now will only confirm the huge losses made, but carrying on you can still cling to the hope of winning big and taking it all back.

2. Cameron Bure:

   Of course, I’m gonna have a lot of questions when I get to talk to God face to face one day, it always makes me cling closer to God… I mean, I love God in the good times, but I’m so grateful that he’s there in the difficult times.

3. Barack Obama:

   It's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them.

4. Kathleen Norris:

   Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

5. George Sand:

   Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.