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. Photographer Kevin Ebi:

   To my surprise, the scene was even more dramatic than I expected. I thought the fox would drop the rabbit, giving the eagle an easy dinner, instead, the fox, with its jaw still clenched on the rabbit, inadvertently got snagged by the bald eagle. The eagle lifted the young fox and rabbit into the sky triggering an even more dramatic struggle.

2. Golda Meir:

   You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

3. 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.

4. The Coral:

   As seen in the video she resisted arrest, and in order to have her to comply she was struck in the side to release her clenched fists - she was then handcuffed.

5. 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.