cling to
phrasal verbcling to something | cling on to something
- to be unwilling to lose something or stop doing something
- Throughout the trial she had clung to the belief that he was innocent.
- He had one last hope to cling on to.
- She managed to cling on to life for another couple of years.
Extra Examples- He still clings stubbornly to his socialist ideas.
- He lay there, barely clinging to consciousness.
- She was desperately clinging on to life.
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