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Clench

verb

Hold in a tight grasp. Synonym: clinch.

Squeeze together tightly.

noun

A small slip noose made with seizing. Synonym: clinch.

The act of grasping. Synonyms: clasp, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold. "He has a strong grip for an old man" , "She kept a firm hold on the railing"

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"Clench" Quotes from Famous Books

... like me. Ye're mair like me than any think! Where ye find your Grierson of Lagg, clench ...

— Foes • Mary Johnston

... which the English Church now receives it, when it might have come down in any other shape; that it was but a toss-up that Anglicans at this day were not Calvinists, or Presbyterians, or Lutherans, equally well as Episcopalians. This historical fact did but clench the difficulty, or rather impossibility, of saying what the faith of the English Church was. On almost every point of dispute the authoritative standard of doctrine was vague or inconsistent, and there was an imposing weight of external testimony ...

— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman

... under your dear influence I gradually forgot how tears came. You almost never cried; and what a good baby you were—oh, a blessed baby!—and I tried to repay you by not worrying you with too many kisses, with too much loving, which I'm sure is not good for a child. Sometimes I had to clench my hands, so strong was my desire to take you up and clasp you tight. Then how quickly you began to grow; and before long my letters and intimate conversation began to be filled with what "Rob said this morning;" ...

— The Smart Set - Correspondence & Conversations • Clyde Fitch

... with a glove on. Gloves are good to keep out the cold and make one look well, but have them so they can easily be removed, as they should be, for they are non-conductors of Christian magnetism. Make bare the hand. Place it in the palm of your friend. Clench the fingers across the back part of the hand you grip. Then let all the animation of your heart rush to the shoulder, and from there to the elbow, and then through the fore arm and through the wrist, till your friend gets the ...

— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... my hand clench on hers. "Take me to husband then, and I will be a good man to you. But, as I am bidden speak to Phorenice the woman now, and not to the Empress, I offer fair warning that I will ...

— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

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