Usually means: Tightens muscles or grips firmly.
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  1. clenches: Merriam-Webster
  2. clenches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clenches: Vocabulary.com
  4. clenches: Wordnik
  5. clenches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clenches: Wiktionary
  7. clenches: Dictionary.com
  8. clenches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. clenches: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. clenches: Legal dictionary

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  1. clenches: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clenches: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clench)

verb:  To grip or hold fast.
verb:  To close tightly.
noun:  A tight grip.
noun:  (engineering) A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
noun:  A local chapter of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion.
noun:  (obsolete) A pun.
verb:  Alternative form of clinch (“bend and hammer a nail”) [To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.]
verb:  Dated form of clinch (“make certain, finalize”). [To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.]
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