clenching
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clenching
verb
- present participle and gerund of clench
noun clenchings
- 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.
adjective more clenching · most clenching
- Alternative form of clinching (“that settles something definitely”). 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.
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@misc{clenching_2026,
title = {clenching},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/clenching},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
