CLAWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clawed mean? 

• CLAWED (adjective)
  The adjective CLAWED has 2 senses:

1. having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a combining form

2. (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons

  Familiarity information: CLAWED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAWED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a combining form

Context example:

sharp-clawed

Similar:

unguiculate; unguiculated (having or resembling claws or nails)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons

Synonyms:

clawed; taloned

Similar:

armed ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)

 Context examples 

The colour went from their six faces like enchantment; some leaped to their feet, some clawed hold of others; Morgan grovelled on the ground.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The men were little red fellows, and had been bitten and clawed so that they could hardly walk.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds, and clawed the air with both his hands.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her quickness matched his; her ferocity equalled his; while he fought with his fangs alone, and she fought with her sharp- clawed feet as well.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Scientists have designed a device for testing 'electroceuticals,' or cell-stimulating therapies with induce partial hindlimb regeneration in adult aquatic African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) by 'kick-starting' tissue repair at the amputation site.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When he strangled, quite involuntarily his arms and legs clawed the water and drove him up to the surface and into the clear sight of the stars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As the door began to open, the howling of the wolves without grew louder and angrier; their red jaws, with champing teeth, and their blunt-clawed feet as they leaped, came in through the opening door.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Never shall I forget the Duke’s appearance as he sprang up and clawed with his hands, like one who is sinking into an abyss.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a minute they were feathered with them, and yet with no sign of pain they clawed and slobbered with impotent rage at the steps which would lead them to their victims, mounting clumsily up for a few yards and then sliding down again to the ground.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)