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The synonyms of “Clenched” are: clinched
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “clenched” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| clinched | Closed or squeezed together tightly. His clenched or clinched teeth. |
| apprehend | Get the meaning of something. A warrant was issued but he has not been apprehended. |
| capture | Capture as if by hunting snaring or trapping. This nucleus has captured the slow moving neutrons. |
| catch | Anything that is caught especially if it is worth catching. Don t catch your meaning. |
| clasp | Hold firmly and tightly. One modest emerald clasped her robe. |
| clinch | Fasten a rope or angling line with a clinch knot. Breaking from a clinch he crossed with his right. |
| clutch | A clutch bag. She clutched her purse. |
| comprehend | Include, comprise, or encompass. He couldn t comprehend her reasons for marrying Lovat. |
| cope | (of a person) deal effectively with something difficult. The roads are barely adequate to cope with the present traffic. |
| dragnet | A net drawn through a river or across ground to trap fish or game. Many who had escaped the police dragnet retreated to a mountain hideout. |
| engage | Keep engaged. He engaged to pay them 10 000 against a bond. |
| fist | Clench the hand or fingers into a fist. Karr clenched his fists. |
| forfeited | Surrendered as a penalty. |
| grab | Capture the attention or imagination of. They used the law to effect a land grab. |
| grapple | A tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope. He grappled the young man around the throat. |
| grasp | The act of grasping. The press failed to grasp the significance of what had happened. |
| grip | A hairgrip. They kept a firm grip on the two top priorities. |
| hijack | An incident or act of hijacking. He argues that pressure groups have hijacked the environmental debate. |
| hijacker | A person who illegally seizes an aircraft, ship, or vehicle while in transit and forces it to go to a different destination or uses it for their own purposes. The hijackers of this government ignore all but their own agenda. |
| impound | Place or shut up in a pound. It will impound a reservoir 130 miles long. |
| kidnap | The action of kidnapping someone. Militants kidnapped the daughter of a minister. |
| kidnapping | (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment. The recent kidnapping of a Dutch industrialist. |
| paralyze | Cause to be paralyzed and immobile. Fear paralyzed her. |
| seize | Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force take as one s right or possession. The army seized the town. |
| tackle | Try to take the ball from (an opponent) by intercepting them. It takes a big man to play tackle. |
| tongs | Any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below. Sugar tongs. |
| transfix | Pierce with a sharp implement or weapon. She stared at him transfixed. |
| understandable | To be expected; natural, reasonable, or forgivable. It is understandable that mistakes occur sometimes. |
| vise | A holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place. |
| wrestle | Struggle with a difficulty or problem. They had a fierce wrestle. |
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