Commit and Clinch

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• 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.
  • synonyms: clench
• The flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet.
• A device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together.
  • synonyms: clamp
• A tight or amorous embrace.
  • usage: "come here and give me a big hug"
  • synonyms: hug, squeeze

verb

• Secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts.
  • usage: "The girder was clinched into the wall"
• Hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches.
• Hold in a tight grasp.
  • usage: "clench a steering wheel"
  • synonyms: clench
• Embrace amorously.
• Flatten the ends (of nails and rivets. )
  • usage: "the nails were clinched"
• Settle conclusively.
  • usage: "clinch a deal"

• (v.t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
• (v.i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
• (v.t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
• (n.) A pun.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) 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.