clinching

verb

  1. 1

    To clasp; to interlock.

  2. 2

    To make certain; to finalize.

    I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
  3. 3

    To fasten securely or permanently.

  4. 4

    To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.

  5. 5

    To embrace passionately.

  6. 6

    To hold firmly; to clench.

  7. 7

    To set closely together; to close tightly.

    to clinch the teeth or the fist

noun

  1. 1

    A clinch; a passionate embrace.

  2. 2

    A making certain or finalizing.

  3. 3

    The distortion of computer tape by wrinkling.

adjective

  1. 1

    That settles something (such as an argument) definitely and conclusively

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