I gently tore the bloodied piece of paper out from her death grip.

The death grip of the Umbrella Ant soldiers is so tenacious that the natives often use them to suture wounds.

The armies came together in a death grip at the bottom of the valley.

[O]ne Confederate in the death grip had seized the sharp edge of a huge rock, and with feet held fast in a cleft of the rock above, hung head downwards between the two.

They act as skirmishers before the actual battle: and while the hoplites are in the real death-grip they harass the foe as they can, and guard the camp.

Death grip

Meaning

Noun