clawed

verb

past tense of claw
1
as in burrowed

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2
as in lacerated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clawed
  1. dredged
  2. lacerated
  3. excavated
  4. cut
  5. chafed
  6. fretted
  7. galled
  8. barked
Verb
  • The combined sewage-overflow tanks that are supposed to divert sewage from running into the canal won’t be complete until 2029 — a seven-year delay that might require parts of the canal to be re-dredged again to remove the contamination.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026
  • His defenders have dredged statues out of rivers and remounted them.
    — Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of dredged
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  • The man’s muscles and skin were lacerated by the bear’s claws and teeth.
    — Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Corbin fractured his jaw in two places, busted his upper arm, and lacerated his lip.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of lacerated
Verb
  • The 50-ton boulder was found about 30 feet below the surface of the airfield while crews excavated the South Detention Basin, a stormwater management facility, as part of the ORDNext terminal expansion project.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • But the archaeologists who excavated the new skeletal fragments from Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan region of Iraq say the fossils weave a complex tale of Neanderthal life and death, beyond what appeared to be deliberate violence.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of excavated
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  • Sullivan denied that the law would cut Medicaid for Alaskans, saying the Affordable Care Act had a greater impact and raised insurance premiums in the state drastically.
    — Matthew Choi The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The new version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been cut from a five-hour show performed across two parts to a single three-hour performance as it is performed on Broadway.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of cut
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  • But a formal deal never materialized, especially as David chafed at possible rewrites that might make the dark comedy more marketable.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Through it all, Nussbaum chafed at the circumscribed role of women.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of chafed
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  • After the duke’s death in 1972, the duchess, in increasingly poor health, fretted about what to do with her massive collection.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
  • At the time, engineers fretted about the safest way to move so much water to the other side while maintaining the dam’s integrity.
    — Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of fretted
Verb
  • Bundle is also galled by Lady Coote’s refusal to mention at the inquest that the fatal sleeping draft was from a bottle she’d given to her sleepless maid, Emily.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • From Warriors coach Steve Kerr, to future Hall of Famers Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green, to 25-year-old relative newcomers Quinten Post and Trayce Jackson-Davis, the team’s lack of competitive fire galled the Warriors.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Definition of galled
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  • The upstairs neighbors had two mastiffs who were left home all day and who barked incessantly and scratched at the floor of their kennel.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • After the top of the ninth, Orioles reliever Cam Sanders barked at the Red Sox dugout, leading Ceddanne Rafaela and Jarren Duran to shout back from the top step, but nothing more transpired.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of barked
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“Clawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clawed. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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