Synonyms of the word

clamp

• n. A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
• n. (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
• n. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
• n. A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
• n. A heavy footstep; a tramp.
• n. (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
• v. (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
• v. (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range.
• v. (Britain, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.

clinch

• v. To clasp; to interlock.
• v. To make certain; to finalize.
• v. To fasten securely or permanently.
• v. To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
• v. To embrace passionately.
• v. To hold firmly; to clench.
• v. To set closely together; to close tightly.
• n. Any of several fastenings.
• n. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
• n. (obsolete) A pun.
• n. (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of…
• n. A passionate embrace.
• n. In combat sports the act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engange…

fasten

• v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
• v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

impose

• v. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
• v. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience.
• v. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
• v. To practice a trick or deception.
• v. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
• v. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns…

inflict

• v. To thrust upon; to impose.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

visit

• v. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
• v. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below…
• v. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
• n. A single act of visiting.
• n. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.