{"id":1466,"date":"2016-09-20T16:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:48:19","slug":"clinch-and-clench-words-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/clinch-and-clench-words-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinch and Clench | Words Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">These words are often confused.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Clench<\/h2>\n<p>To clench is to hold tightly or grasp firmly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The boy clenched his fists in anger.<\/li>\n<li>The patient clenched the arms of his wheel chair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Common expressions with clench are: <em>clench one\u2019s teeth, clench one\u2019s fist, clench onto a rope etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Clinch<\/h2>\n<p>To clinch is to win, secure or obtain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The player clinched the trophy with a fantastic performance.<\/li>\n<li>He clinched the deal with a handshake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These words are often confused. Clench To clench is to hold tightly or grasp firmly. The boy clenched his fists in anger. The patient clenched the arms of his wheel chair. Common expressions with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-clench-and-clinch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}