cinch
verb/sɪntʃ/
/sɪntʃ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cinch | /sɪntʃ/ /sɪntʃ/ |
| he / she / it cinches | /ˈsɪntʃɪz/ /ˈsɪntʃɪz/ |
| past simple cinched | /sɪntʃt/ /sɪntʃt/ |
| past participle cinched | /sɪntʃt/ /sɪntʃt/ |
| -ing form cinching | /ˈsɪntʃɪŋ/ /ˈsɪntʃɪŋ/ |
- cinch something (especially North American English) to fasten something tightly around the middle part of your body; to be fastened around the middle part of somebody’s body
- cinch something (North American English) to fasten a girth around a horse
- cinch something (North American English, informal) to make something certainTopics Doubt, guessing and certaintyc2
Word Originmid 19th cent. (in sense 2 of the verb): from Spanish cincha ‘girth’.
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