Crossword clues for clinched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clinch \Clinch\ (kl[i^]nch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching.] [OE. clenchen, prop. causative of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See Clink.]
To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. ``Clinch the pointed spear.''
--Dryden.To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
--Swift.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.
--South.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: clinch)
WordNet
adj. closed or squeezed together tightly; "a clenched fist"; "his clenched (or clinched) teeth" [syn: clenched]
Usage examples of "clinched".
Covenant clinched his chest, did not allow himself to beg for Sunder's aid.
He marched there without a backward look, clinched by the old intransigent stricture of his illness.
His hand clinched the Stonemight as if he were covetous to use all its power.
While his eyes followed the struggle, his ears clinched every word of the dialogue between Honninscrave and the first mud-forms.
Wiz sucked in his breath and clinched his eyes tight to ward off the dizziness.
One had his paws clasped tightly over its ears, another had its eyes clinched shut and the third was covering its mouth.
He clinched his eyes tight and waited to feel the lethal staff tip in the center of his back.
He arose, paced a while up and down the hut, and then, suddenly stopping before Mercedes, with his eyes glowing and his hands clinched, -- "Say, Mercedes," he said, "once for all, is this your final determination?
Villefort's brow darkened more and more, his white lips and clinched teeth filled Dantes with apprehension.
Dantes hastened to his dungeon, where he found him standing in the middle of the room, pale as death, his forehead streaming with perspiration, and his hands clinched tightly together.
He had just expired, with clinched hands, his mouth in a spasm of agony, and his hair on end in the sweat of death.
Oh, man, man -- race of crocodiles," cried the count, extending his clinched hands towards the crowd, "how well do I recognize you there, and that at all times you are worthy of yourselves!
But Monte Cristo, without rising, and leaning forward in his chair, merely stretched out his arm and, taking the damp, crushed glove from the clinched hand of the young man, "Sir," said he in a solemn tone, "I consider your glove thrown, and will return it to you wrapped around a bullet.
He returned thus, formidable and implacable, advancing with his arms crossed on his breast, towards the general, who could not understand why he had disappeared, but who on seeing him again, and feeling his teeth chatter and his legs sink under him, drew back, and only stopped when he found a table to support his clinched hand.
He arose, paced a while up and down the hut, and then, suddenly stopping before Mercedes, with his eyes glowing and his hands clinched, —“Say, Mercedes,” he said, “once for all, is this your final determination?