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Found 4 hits - Term: clawed, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
claw \claw\ kladd, v. t. imp.  p. p. clawed kladdd;
   p. pr.  vb. n. clawing. as. clawan. see claw, n.
   1. to pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or
      nails.
      1913 webster

   2. to relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching;
      to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. obs.
      1913 webster

            rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor
            they contemn and despise.             --holland.
      1913 webster

   3. to rail at; to scold. obs.
      1913 webster

            in the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth
            the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion,
            thanks be to god, is right well kept and observed;
            though he claweth them soon after in another
            acceptation.                          --t. fuller
      1913 webster

   claw me, claw thee, stand by me and i will stand by you; --
      an old proverb. --tyndale.

   to claw away, to scold or revile. "the jade fortune is to
      be clawed away for it, if you should lose it."
      --l'estrange.

   to claw one on the back, to tickle; to express
      approbation. obs. --chaucer.

   to claw one on the gall, to find fault with; to vex.
      obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster
see also:
clawed clawing claw claw me, claw thee to claw away to claw one on the back 
to claw one on the gall 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
clawed \clawed\ kladdd, a.
   furnished with claws. --n. grew.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
clawed
     adj 1: having a claw or claws; often used as a combining form;
            "sharp-clawed"
     2: of animals syn: taloned
see also:
taloned 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
30 moby thesaurus words for "clawed":
   agonized, convulsed, crucified, dentate, digital, digitate,
   digitated, fanged, fingered, footed, harrowed, hoofed, jawed,
   lacerated, lancinated, on the rack, pedal, plantar, prehensile,
   racked, raptorial, ripped, savaged, taloned, toed, toothed,
   tortured, under the harrow, ungulate, wrung





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