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Clung
- verb - come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
- hold on tightly or tenaciously; "hang on to your father's hands"; "The child clung to his mother's apron"
- to remain emotionally or intellectually attached; "He clings to the idea that she might still love him."
Flung
- verb - indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"
- move in an abrupt or headlong manner; "He flung himself onto the sofa"
- throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
- throw with force or recklessness; "fling the frisbee"
Slung
- verb - hang loosely or freely; let swing
- hold or carry in a sling; "he cannot button his shirt with his slinged arm"
- hurl as if with a sling
- move with a sling; "sling the cargo onto the ship"
Stung
- verb - aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"
- cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"
- cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"
- deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
Swung
- verb - alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down"
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward"
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends; "There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"
- hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
- have a certain musical rhythm; "The music has to swing"
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee"
- influence decisively; "This action swung many votes over to his side"
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting; "He swung his left fist"; "swing a bat"
Wrung
- verb - obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"
- twist and press out of shape
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"
Young
- adjective - (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"
- (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"
- any immature animal
- being in its early stage; "a young industry"; "the day is still young"
- British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
- English poet (1683-1765)
- Not as old
- not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing"
- suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his age"
- United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
- United States civil rights leade