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[ verb ] fasten or fix with a clamp

Examples

"clamp the chair together until the glue has hardened"

Used in print

(Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)

Killpath pulled one thin leg up , clamping his arms around the shinbone to press his knee into an incredibly scrawny gut .

He clamped his jaws to keep the fury from spilling_out .

Related terms

fasten

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[ verb ] impose or inflict forcefully

Examples

"The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital"

Used in print

(Leon Uris, Mila 8....)

Grabski sat in a sweat saturated undershirt , cursing the excessive heat which clamped an uneasy stillness before sundown .

Related terms

inflict

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 30614
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[ noun ] a device (used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
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