clenching

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil present participle and gerund of clench
2. isim 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.”

3. sıfat 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.”