clenching
English edit
Verb edit
clenching
- present participle and gerund of clench
Noun edit
clenching (plural clenchings)
- The act by which something (a fist, a jaw, etc.) is clenched.
- 1965, Edward J. Murray, Sleep, dreams, and arousal, page 151:
- Many of the clenchings [of muscles] were uncoordinated, and one would guess that they occurred more and more as the sleep synchronized.
Adjective edit
clenching (comparative more clenching, superlative most clenching)
- Alternative form of clinching (“that settles something definitely”)
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- 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.