Clinches is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for CLINCHES in dictionary:

VERB:

CLINCH, 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.

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.

Words related to CLINCHES

clinch13 clinched16 clinching17

Words that contain CLINCHES

unclinches17

How to use CLINCHES in a sentence

Joe was too busy living through the storm he had already caused, blocking, covering up, and ducking into the safety and respite of the clinches.
The rest of the round, the three long minutes of it, was a succession of clinches and breaks.
In the clinches it was he who brought his fist down on the small of the back, striking the terrible kidney blow.
After the removal of the clinches, the nails should be drawn one at a time with the pincers, and carefully examined.
The shoe was roughly but strongly nailed on with eight nails, the clinches of which were all firm.
They danced about and fiddled for an opening, sparred for wind, and did all the fancy footwork of the fifth-class fighter, but they seldom came together except in clinches.
By the seventh round he was about all in, hanging on and panting and sobbing for breath in the clinches, and I knew I could put him out any time.
Outside of the factional clinches of the House and Senate caucuses the early days have little serious business.
Three times they fell into clinches from sheer exhaustion to be pried apart by the referee, only to go at each other again.
Twice they stumbled into clinches and were torn apart by the pitiless Gannon.

Similar words containing CLINCHE without suffix s

clinched16 clincher15 clinchers16 unclinched18 unclinches17

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