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Clinch   /klɪntʃ/   Listen
Clinch

verb
(past & past part. clinched; pres. part. clinching)
1.
Secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts.
2.
Hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches.
3.
Hold in a tight grasp.  Synonym: clench.
4.
Embrace amorously.
5.
Flatten the ends (of nails and rivets).
6.
Settle conclusively.
noun
1.
(boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily.
2.
A small slip noose made with seizing.  Synonym: clench.
3.
The flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet.
4.
A device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together.  Synonym: clamp.
5.
A tight or amorous embrace.  Synonyms: hug, squeeze.



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"Clinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... nothing at all, but, unbalanced with her game hindleg, having no force to push or spring with, and being very weak, she knew she was done for directly they closed to the clinch. ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars
... first possible instant after the clear, forceful and foreshadowing introduction. The introduction has started the action of the story, the chief characters have shown what they are and the interest of the audience has been awakened. Now you must clinch that interest by having something happen that is novel, and promises in the division of personal interests which grow out of it to hold a punch that will stir ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... Alexandrian girl was empress; but it was from the women that I heard the most vindictive and shameless abuse. I heard more than enough; for, as we got closer to the Serapeum, the more slowly was the chariot obliged to proceed, to make its way through the crowd. And the things I heard! I clinch my fists now as I only think of them.—And what will it be in the Circus? What will not ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... to me," he said hastily. "I had the good fortune to fall into conversation with a detective who took me, thanks to my hat, for a respectable person. Wishing to clinch my reputation for respectability, I took him and made him very drunk at the Savoy. Under this influence he became friendly, and told me in so many words that within a day or two they hope to arrest ...
— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton
... But to clinch the argument, it is clearly desirable to prove that the custom of putting to death a human representative of a god was known and practised in ancient Italy elsewhere than in the Arician Grove. This proof I now propose ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer


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