🇬🇧 Claw meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To claw means to grab, scratch, or tear at something with sharp claws or nails, like a cat scraping a couch or a bear ripping open a log to find bugs. When you claw, you use your fingers or claws in a rough, scratching way to try to open, break, or hang onto something.

My little cousin pretended to be a tiger and tried to claw the couch, so we sent him back to his natural habitat: the timeout chair.

Our cat tried to claw the new scratching post, missed, and very dramatically clawed the air instead.

My baby brother tried to claw open the cookie jar, but the lid defeated him like a final boss.

The zombie in my video game kept trying to claw the door, but I had already gone out the window.

Bears sometimes claw trees and leave deep scratch marks there to show other bears how big and strong they are.

A small cat would claw at the door each night. When the owner opened it, the cat would claw the blanket, claw the pillow, claw the curtain, claw the finger that reached in, then curl and purr. The owner laughed, cleaned a scratch, and stroked the cat, which stopped and slept, content.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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