Clawing

The cat is clawing Tom.

"Thank you for clawing me," Taninna told her cat.

The shadows were clawing at the door.

Sami's cat was clawing Layla.

In practice, leaders calling for "socialism" are usually just calling for more power for themselves with less accountability. But this isn't to be confused with socialism itself, which is achieved by mass movements of the workers and aimed at clawing power away from the powerful.

The clawing sound stopped.

Ziri began savagely clawing at Rima.

She says her life is difficult, but that she has no choice than to be out here, under a broiling sun, hunched over, clawing at parched land.

[…] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]

clawing fear