Usually means: Tightening muscles, usually in jaw.
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  1. clenching: Merriam-Webster
  2. clenching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clenching: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clenching, clenching: Wordnik
  5. clenching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clenching: Wiktionary
  7. clenching: Dictionary.com
  8. clenching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. clenching: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Clenching: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. clenching: Legal dictionary

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  1. clenching: Medical dictionary

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  1. clenching: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clenching)

noun:  The act by which something (a fist, a jaw, etc.) is clenched.
adjective:  Alternative form of clinching (“that settles something definitely”) [That settles something (such as an argument) definitely and conclusively.]

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