claw back (English, verb)
expansion: claw back (third-person singular simple present claws back, present participle clawing back, simple past and past participle clawed back)
Senses:
glosses: To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost, often by a government or official agency.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: claws back
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clawing back
tags: participle
present
form: clawed back
tags: participle
past
form: clawed back
tags: past