Synonyms for clenched
clenched

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1. clenchedadjective

   Antonyms:
   unclenched

2. clenchedadjective

   a clenched fist

   Antonyms:
   unclenched

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1. clenched, clinchedadjective

   closed or squeezed together tightly

   "a clenched fist"; "his clenched (or clinched) teeth"

   Synonyms:
   clinched

   Antonyms:
   loose

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1. Matthew Bryza:

   That was the signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that despite having invaded Georgia and occupied a large swath of its territory, everything was Okay. Russia responded to the outreached hand with a clenched fist and beefed up its attack.

2. George Steiner:

   The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

3. Thomas Hardy:

   If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

4. Aisha Yesufu:

   I raised up my hand and clenched fist and started walking back slowly, they were shooting at me, i braced myself for the impact and they were throwing tear gas. I said to myself, 'no matter what I am going to go down standing'. I was bracing myself for the pain that would come from any impact.

5. George Jean Nathan:

   No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.