clinch

clinch is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
2. transitive verb. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
3. transitive verb. To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
4. transitive verb. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
5. intransitive verb. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
6. noun. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
7. noun. A pun.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily
10. noun. a tight or amorous embrace

    "come here and give me a big hug"

    Synonyms: hug, squeeze

11. noun. a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

    Synonyms: clamp

12. noun. the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet
13. noun. a small slip noose made with seizing

    Synonyms: clench

14. verb. settle conclusively

    "clinch a deal"

15. verb. flatten the ends (of nails and rivets)

    "the nails were clinched"

16. verb. secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts

    "The girder was clinched into the wall"

17. verb. embrace amorously
18. verb. hold in a tight grasp

    "clench a steering wheel"

    Synonyms: clench

19. verb. hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches

Synonyms

hug, squeeze, clamp, clench

Common word forms

clinched, clincher, clinches, clinching

Words from these letters

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