Clench your teeth together, please.
Source: tatoeba (263592)
Clench
/klɛnt͡ʃ/
Synonyms for "clench" (89 found)
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More general
14 entriesMore specific
4 entriesfist griphand clampjaw clenchteeth bite
Collocations
5 entriesclenched fistsclenched jawclenched teethfist clenchedjaw clench
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
40 translations across 19 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- klou verb (to squeeze)
Bulgarian
2 entries- свивам verb (to squeeze)
- стискам verb (to squeeze)
Catalan
2 entries- estrènyer verb (to squeeze)
- serrar verb (to squeeze)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 咬緊 /咬紧 verb (to squeeze)
- 握緊 /握紧 verb (to squeeze)
- 攥緊 /攥紧 verb (to squeeze)
Czech
1 entries- sevřít verb (to squeeze)
Dutch
3 entries- ballen (vuist) verb (to squeeze)
- samenballen verb (to squeeze)
- vastknijpen verb (to squeeze)
Esperanto
1 entries- premi verb (to squeeze)
Finnish
1 entries- puristaa verb (to squeeze)
French
1 entries- serrer verb (to squeeze)
Friulian
2 entries- strengi verb (to squeeze)
- strenzi verb (to squeeze)
German
2 entries- ballen (Fäuste) verb (to squeeze)
- zusammenpressen verb (to squeeze)
Japanese
3 entries- 固める verb (to squeeze)
- 堅く締める verb (to squeeze)
- 握り締める verb (to squeeze)
Marathi
1 entries- आवळणे verb (to squeeze)
Māori
4 entries- kakati verb (to squeeze)
- kuku verb (to squeeze)
- kumu verb (to squeeze)
- nenē verb (to squeeze)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- ufunya verb (to squeeze)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- knyte verb (to squeeze)
- knytte verb (to squeeze)
Russian
4 entries- сжать verb (to squeeze)
- сжима́ть verb (to squeeze)
- сти́скивать verb (to squeeze)
- сти́снуть verb (to squeeze)
Spanish
3 entries- apretarse verb (to squeeze)
- cerrar (el puño) verb (to squeeze)
- cerrarse verb (to squeeze)
Swedish
1 entries- knyta verb (to squeeze)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Clench your teeth, please.
Source: tatoeba (263598)
Said the dentist: "Now open your mouth and clench your teeth."
Source: tatoeba (2657689)
Clench your butt-cheeks.
Source: tatoeba (9227384)
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