Usually means: Grasped tightly; succeeded under pressure.
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  1. clutched: Merriam-Webster
  2. clutched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clutched: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clutched, clutched: Wordnik
  5. clutched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clutched: Wiktionary
  7. Clutched, clutched: Dictionary.com
  8. clutched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Clutched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Clutched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. clutched: FreeDictionary.org
  12. clutched: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. clutched: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clutched: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clutched: Medical dictionary

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  1. clutched: Idioms

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  1. Clutched: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clutch)

verb:  To seize, as though with claws.
verb:  To grip or grasp tightly.
verb:  (video games) To win despite being the only remaining player on one's team, against several opponents.
verb:  (video games, by extension) To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
noun:  The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
noun:  (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
noun:  A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
noun:  The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
noun:  Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
noun:  A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
noun:  A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
noun:  (US) An important or critical situation.
noun:  A difficult maneuver.
adjective:  (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
noun:  A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs; a sitting.
noun:  A group or bunch (of people or things).
verb:  (transitive) To hatch.
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