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clenching

clenching

English

Verb

clenching

present participle of clench

Noun

clenching ‎(plural clenchings)

The act by which something (a fist, a jaw, etc.) is clenched.
- 1965, Edward J. Murray, Sleep, dreams, and arousal (page 151)
  Many of the clenchings [of muscles] were uncoordinated, and one would guess that they occurred more and more as the sleep synchronized.