Verb:

वफ़ादार रहना, कृतज्ञ रहना, लगाव मानना, चिमटना, दृढ़ पकड़ना, लिपटना, अडिग रहना, चिपटना,

clings's Usage Examples:

this region a lilac-coloured violet clings to the soil, and above there is nothing but a little lichen.

The Danes were specially renowned for their axes; but about the sword the most of northern poetry and mythology clings.

This resentment was especially conspicuous in Bavaria, which clings more tenaciously than the other states to its separate traditions.

If it clings together closely it is too heavy and requires amelioration by the admixture of gritty material; if it has little or no cohesion when squeezed tightly in the hand, it is] too light, and needs to be improved by the addition of heavier or clayey material.

In the Eastern Alps the longest glacier is the Pasterze (rather over 64 m.), which is not near the true main watershed, though it clings to the slope of the Greater Tauern range, east of the Dreiherrenspitze.

The educated bourgeoisie, which controls the fields of politics, science, finance, administration, art and literature, does not trouble itself about that great spiritual universal monarchy which Rome, as heir of the Caesars, claimed for the Vatican, and to which the Curia of to-day still clings.

In small flowers which are crowded at the same level or in flat flowers in which the stigmas and anthers project but little, slugs or snails creeping over their surface may transfer to the stigma the pollen which clings to the slimy foot.

This is an arrangement recommended by one who has tried it, and he reassures the old-fashioned believer who clings to the less formal regime (and whose protest was voiced in the Montanist movement), that there will be no spiritual loss under the new system.

If a drop of water be allowed to form at the extremity of a fine tube, it will go on increasing until its weight overcomes the surface tension by which it clings to the tube, and then it will fall.

It was formerly the capital of Vogtland, or Voigtland, a territory governed by the imperial vogt, or bailiff, and this name still clings in popular speech to the hilly district in which the town lies.

Synonyms:

adjoin, conglutinate, mold, cohere, attach, adhere, meet, stick, bind, hold fast, touch, cleave, stick to, agglutinate, contact, bond,

Antonyms:

miss, disengage, stifle, nonadhesive, detach,