clenched

英 [klentʃt]

美 [klentʃt]

v. (通常表示愤怒、决心或不安时)捏紧，攥紧(拳头等)，咬紧(牙齿等); 握紧; 抓牢; 攥住
clench的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：clenched　过去式：clenched　

BNC.15399 / COCA.16614

柯林斯词典

V-ERG 攥紧(拳头)；(拳头)紧握
When youclenchyour fist or your fistclenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
1. Alex clenched her fists and gritted her teeth...
  亚历克丝攥紧拳头，牙咬得咯咯响。
2. She pulled at his sleeve and he turned on her, fists clenching again before he saw who it was.
  她拉了拉他的袖子，他双拳再次握紧，气冲冲地转过身来，这才发现是她。
3. ...angry protestors with clenched fists.
  双拳紧握的愤怒的抗议者们
VERB (通常指生气、不安时)咬紧(牙齿)，咬牙切齿
When youclenchyour teeth or theyclench, you squeeze your teeth together firmly, usually because you are angry or upset.
1. Patsy had to clench her jaw to suppress her anger...
  帕奇只得咬紧牙关压住怒气。
2. Slowly, he released his breath through clenched teeth.
  他从紧咬的牙缝间慢慢地舒了口气。
VERB 抓紧;握紧;咬紧
If youclenchsomething in your hand or in your teeth, you hold it tightly with your hand or your teeth.
1. I clenched the arms of my chair.
  我死死抓住椅子扶手。

adj

closed or squeezed together tightly
1. a clenched fist
2. his clenched (or clinched) teeth
Synonym:clinched

Their fists were clenched so tightly that their nails dug deep into their palms.
他们紧握着拳头，指甲深深地捏进了手心。
Nothing, If you clenched the hands, but everything open the hands!
“把手握紧，一无所有；把手张开，就拥有了一切”。
His action is: raised left hand, and slowly more and more tight and clenched fists.
老先生的动作是：举起左手，慢慢地而有越来越紧的握紧拳头。
My stomach seized up like a clenched fist, and nausea rolled into me like a fever.
我的胃像捏紧的拳头一样胀了起来，恶心如发烧似的冲进了我的身躯。
Had he not proposed to replace a clenched fist with an outstretched hand?
如果奥巴马没有建议用伸出的手来代替紧握的拳头呢？
Alex clenched her fists and gritted her teeth
亚历克丝攥紧拳头，牙咬得咯咯响。
The police wrested the knife from his clenched fist.
警察从他紧握的拳头中把刀子强抢了过来。
Slowly, he released his breath through clenched teeth.
他从紧咬的牙缝间慢慢地舒了口气。
The boy clenched his fists in anger.
那男孩愤怒地握紧了拳头。
The shape of the coin was imprinted on his tightly clenched hand.
在他紧握的手里印下了硬币的形状。