• v.
    ⦿to remain emotionally or intellectually attached
    lexical concept
  • He clings to the idea that she might still love him.

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:cling
wn:interlingual indexili:i30615

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcling