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The correct spelling is clinch.
How to pronounce clinch
/klɪntʃ/
nounIPA: /klɪntʃ/
Say it like: Cli-nch
The correct spelling is clinch. Any of several fastenings. For example: "to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon"
Usage Examples
“to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon”
“I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.”
“to clinch the teeth or the fist”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Any of several fastenings.
- 2.The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
- 3.A pun.
- 4.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.
- 5.A passionate embrace.
verb
- 1.To clasp; to interlock.
- 2.To make certain; to finalize.
- 3.To fasten securely or permanently.
- 4.To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
- 5.To embrace passionately.
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