Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cinch
Participle: cinched
Gerund: cinching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cinch |
| you | cinch |
| he;she;it | cinches |
| we | cinch |
| you | cinch |
| they | cinch |
Perfect
| I | have cinched |
| you | have cinched |
| he;she;it | has cinched |
| we | have cinched |
| you | have cinched |
| they | have cinched |
Past
| I | cinched |
| you | cinched |
| he;she;it | cinched |
| we | cinched |
| you | cinched |
| they | cinched |
Pluperfect
| I | had cinched |
| you | had cinched |
| he;she;it | had cinched |
| we | had cinched |
| you | had cinched |
| they | had cinched |
Future
| I | will cinch |
| you | will cinch |
| he;she;it | will cinch |
| we | will cinch |
| you | will cinch |
| they | will cinch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cinched |
| you | will have cinched |
| he;she;it | will have cinched |
| we | will have cinched |
| you | will have cinched |
| they | will have cinched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cinch |
| you | cinch |
| he;she;it | cinch |
| we | cinch |
| you | cinch |
| they | cinch |
Perfect
| I | have cinched |
| you | have cinched |
| he;she;it | have cinched |
| we | have cinched |
| you | have cinched |
| they | have cinched |
Imperfect
| I | cinched |
| you | cinched |
| he;she;it | cinched |
| we | cinched |
| you | cinched |
| they | cinched |
Pluperfect
| I | had cinched |
| you | had cinched |
| he;she;it | had cinched |
| we | had cinched |
| you | had cinched |
| they | had cinched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cinch |
| you | would cinch |
| he;she;it | would cinch |
| we | would cinch |
| you | would cinch |
| they | would cinch |
Perfect
| I | would have cinched |
| you | would have cinched |
| he;she;it | would have cinched |
| we | would have cinched |
| you | would have cinched |
| they | would have cinched |
Imperative
| you | cinch |
| we | Let's cinch |
| you | cinch |
Verbs conjugated like 'cinch'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cinch'
clinch,
conch,
crinch,
finch,
inch,
pinch,
sinch,
winch,
bench,
birch,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan cencha, from Latin cincta, or from Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle.
Sample Sentences
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He let Sandy stand for a minute and then took the saddle off. Several more of these saddlings and unsaddlings followed. Then finally the saddle was cinched. Again Sandy repeated his pattern of calming down after the first unfamiliarity of a new experience had worn off. […] Before long Sandy accepted the saddle as if he’d been born with one on his back. [1954, Troy Nesbit [pseudonym; Franklin Folsom], “Sacking Out”, in Sand Dune Pony (Wilderness Mysteries; 1), Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 145:]
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[Ostriches] also lack the tiny hooks, or barbicels, that cinch feathers together in most other birds. [2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:]
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In our tiny 30-foot schooner, the 40-foot (think four stories high) waves looked more like giant mountains hurtling at us. I cinched the straps on my lifejacket a bit tighter and held on for dear life. [2022, Amour Vincit Omnia, “Why The Price Of Love Is Pain”, in Agapé, volume 22, number 1, page 5:]