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

Her hands clenched involuntarily.
她本能地攥紧了拳头。
I clenched the arms of my chair.
我死死抓住椅子扶手。
Each clenched his fists and set his jaw when the order came to arrest the secret agents.
听说去抓特务，一个个都摩拳擦掌。
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。
Now he worked with clenched teeth, his lips pressed back above his beard.
他咬紧了牙做着工作，胡须上面的嘴唇闭得紧紧的。
Angry protestors with clenched fists shouted their defiance
愤怒的抗议者们紧握拳头大声抗议。
She clenched her fists because of the pain.
因为疼痛，她握紧了拳头。
Rudolph frowned, opened and shut his big right hand, and dropped it clenched upon his knee.
鲁道夫皱起了眉头，打开和关闭他的大右手，并放弃了它在他膝盖握紧。
The small boy cringed from the bully's clenched fist.
那个小孩在恶霸紧握的拳头面前退缩了。
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”。