yawns is a form of:
Clinch
noun
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- (Clinching as with a nail, act of clinching, an embrace) ការវាយបត់ (ដែកគោល) / ការវាយឱ្យណែន, ការចងរឹតឱ្យតឹង, ដែកគោលមិន
Example: To clinch a deal, The boxer clinched his opponent around the shoulders, The fighters are in a desperate clinch.
verb — past tense: clinched ; past participle: clinched ; present participle: clinching ;
- 1.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) សម្រេច (កិច្ចព្រមព្រៀមជំនួញ)
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to fasten [a nail or rivet] by hammering the point sideways, to settle conclusively, to settle [an argument, deal, etc.] definitely) បញ្ចប់, សន្និដ្ឋាន, ឲ្យយោបល់, មានជាក់ស្ដែង, clinch a nail វាយប clinch a deal សម្រេច
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- 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.
- 2.
- 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.
verb — past tense: clinched ; past participle: clinched ; present participle: clinching ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
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- A pun