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Clinging vs Clung - What's the difference?

clinging | clung |

As verbs the difference between clinging and clung

is that clinging is while clung is (cling).

As a noun clinging

is the act of one who clings.

As an adjective clung is

(obsolete) wasted away; shrunken.

clinging

English

(wikipedia clinging)

Verb

(head)

    • Synonyms

    * (noun) * (adjective)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who clings.
  • * 2013 , Lawrence C. Becker, ?Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics (page 217)
    • The mind ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings , and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.

    clung

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cling)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) wasted away; shrunken