CLINCH
clinch
Noun
- Any of several fastenings.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
- to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
- to secure anything by a clinch
- A pun.
- A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
- A passionate embrace.
Verb
- To clasp; to interlock.
- To make certain; to finalize.
- I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
- To fasten securely or permanently.
- To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
- To embrace passionately.
- To hold firmly; to clench.
- To set closely together; to close tightly.
- to clinch the teeth or the fist
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