Clinch is valid Scrabble Word

Is clinch a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is clinch valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for CLINCH in dictionary:

VERB:

to settle a matter decisively
confirm or settle (a contract or bargain)
conclusively settle (an argument or debate)
confirm the winning or achievement of (a match, competition, or victory)
grapple at close quarters, especially (of boxers) so as to be too closely engaged for full-arm blows.
(of two people) embrace.
secure (a nail or rivet) by driving the point sideways when it has penetrated.
fasten (a rope or angling line) with a clinch knot.
settle (an argument or agreement) decisively
To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
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.
To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts
hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches
hold in a tight grasp
embrace amorously
flatten the ends (of nails and rivets)
settle conclusively

NOUN:

a struggle or scuffle at close quarters
an embrace, especially an amorous one
a knot used to fasten ropes or angling lines, using a half hitch with the end seized back on its own part.
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.
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.
(boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily
a small slip noose made with seizing
the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet
a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
a tight or amorous embrace
movement in which one competitor holds on to the other to avoid punches

Words related to CLINCH

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Words that contain CLINCH

clinched16 clincher15 clinches15 unclinch15 clinchers16 clinching17 unclinched18 unclinches17 clinchingly22 unclinching19

How to use CLINCH in a sentence

They almost came to a clinch with Buckheath then and there.
Dave took a fair get away, not attempting to strike as the clinch was broken.
The absence of all notes of life in that direction seemed to clinch his intentions, and he knocked at the door.
Fate gets her hook ready, but the eye is not there to clinch with it, and so all goes at loose ends.
But Joe ducked into a clinch and was for a moment saved.
Each moment of the clinch his strength was coming back to him, his brain was clearing, the cobwebs were disappearing from before his eyes.
He did it once, in each clinch, but with all his strength, and he did it every clinch.
Clinch! I wish the signal you made from yonder headland explained, sir.
Clinch had not seen the movements of the lugger after dark, in consequence of his retiring to the village of St.
I have opened the way for a commission to him, and no one in the ship can go to Naples in a boat sooner than Clinch, if he really try.

When Clinch reached the fleet, Nelson was at Castel a Mare, and it became necessary to follow him to that place by land.
In this valley arise and end the Clinch, the Holston, the Watauga, the Nolichucky, the French Broad, and the other streams, whose combined volume makes the Tennessee River.
James Robertson and a host of others followed in 1770, and soon the valleys of the Clinch and the Holston were dotted with cabins.
Then she dropped down where she was, all into the golden mass and shine of her bright raiment, with her hands before her eyes, the paper crumpled in the clinch of one of them.
They will talk all round a thing, and yet never get the name which would clinch the matter.
In bringing our ship up, the cable parted at the clinch, which obliged us to come-to with the other anchor.
Bascomb made an effort to clinch immediately, but Frank landed two blows that sent him staggering.
In court it would clinch the case against him by supplying the one missing link in the chain of circumstantial evidence.
Set up straight, lean a little back, and clinch your knees.
Clinch was placed in command of the troops whose services it was thought might be needed.
The next day there was a formal meeting at which the agent, backed up by Clinch and his soldiers, upbraided the Indians in a very harsh manner.
Clinch endeavored to appeal to the Indians and to advise them that resistance was both unwise and useless.
But to clinch all, he had no notion of letting the Pilgrim offend her by his presence.
To clinch his argument he appeals to plain matter of fact and his own personal experience.
Chester staggered back, but rushed into another clinch as Duval raised his revolver.
But the scent died out before they could clinch the matter, and he escaped.
But, at least superficially, political considerations are in the foreground to clinch decisions.
The ironical clinch to his sorrow was given by the thought that the intimacy between his cousin and the schoolmaster had been brought about entirely by himself.
So when the witnesses against her swore that she had no particular mark, David Paul Brown made them clinch this part of their testimony irrevocably.
He managed to elude the grasp of his antagonist for probably a minute, and more by luck than skill fell on top when the end of the clinch came.
He swayed a little, but rose and fell into a clinch which saved him.
McIntosh, David Emanuel Twiggs, and Duncan Clinch, each commanded regiments in the South.
My information of these facts was derived from Twiggs, Clinch, and Henry Clay.
General Taylor stated to me that long after these events had transpired, and after the resignation of Colonel Clinch, General Twiggs had made the communication to him.
To clinch the thing, Florence went around and saw Frederica about it.

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