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