CLENCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clenched mean? 

• CLENCHED (adjective)
  The adjective CLENCHED has 1 sense:

1. closed or squeezed together tightly

  Familiarity information: CLENCHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLENCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Closed or squeezed together tightly

Synonyms:

clenched; clinched

Context example:

his clenched (or clinched) teeth

Similar:

tight (closely constrained or constricted or constricting)

 Context examples 

His face was convulsed and white, his eyes were flashing, his clenched fists raised overhead.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“YOU love him? You?” she cried, with her clenched hand, quivering as if it only wanted a weapon to stab the object of her wrath.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Their tallest trees are about seven feet high: I mean some of those in the great royal park, the tops whereof I could but just reach with my fist clenched.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Sterndale’s fierce face turned to a dusky red, his eyes glared, and the knotted, passionate veins started out in his forehead, while he sprang forward with clenched hands towards my companion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every now and then he would pluck at his hair, or shake his clenched hands in the air; and I saw the moisture glisten upon his brow.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She shook her clenched white hand as she spoke, and her lips tightened ominously.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Duke had dropped the last attempt at self-command, and was pacing the room with a convulsed face and with his clenched hands raving in the air.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He held on to the wing and growled between his tight-clenched teeth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Occasionally, with faces which were convulsed with fear and hatred, they shook their clenched hands at the woods round and cried: "Doda! Doda!" which was surely their term for their enemies.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He felt power move in him, and clenched his fists.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)