Crossword-Solution: CLENCHED 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

We have 7 clues for the answer “CLENCHED”

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Came to grips with? 1 answer
Like a threatening fist 1 answer
Made a fist 1 answer
(Of teeth) pressed tightly together 1 answer
Grasped tightly 2 answers
Closed tightly 3 answers
GIZMO 19 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CLENCHED (5)

And he clenched his teeth and did not cry, and soon his shadow was behaving properly, though still a little creased.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Frank went into the house and threw himself on the sofa, his face to the wall, his clenched fist on his hip.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
The doctor leaned forward and put his hand protectingly over hers, which lay clenched on the green felt desktop.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
For the moment Marguerite’s sweet face had become as white as the soft fichu which swathed her throat, and a very keen observer might have noted that the hand which held the tall, beribboned stick was clenched, and trembled somewhat.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
The chained prisoners had been watching the combat in tense silence; not a sound had fallen in the room other than the clashing of our contending blades, the soft shuffling of our naked feet and the few whispered words we had hissed at each other through clenched teeth the while we continued our mortal duel.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with CLENCHED (3)

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason
God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!''John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve. Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his e…
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1986–2022).