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Clenching

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of clinching (“that settles something definitely”). alt-of, alternative

    "Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time."

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something (a fist, a jaw, etc.) is clenched.

    "Many of the clenchings [of muscles] were uncoordinated, and one would guess that they occurred more and more as the sleep synchronized."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of clench form-of, gerund, participle, present

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