What does clamp mean in crosswords?

clamp means: impose or inflict forcefully

Which crossword clues can have clamp as the answer?

Possible clues for clamp include "Hold tightly in place".

clamp is also used as a crossword clue. The answer is often vise, 4 letters.

Word entry · 5 letters

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"Hold tightly in place"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈklæmp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aclmpStarts with CEnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word

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"clamp" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often vise (4 letters).

From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”), related to Proto-West Germanic *klammjan.

“[T]he pots would be stacked in a heap, covered with wood chippings and brushwood and domed over with turves, leaving a few air vents around the sides. When complete the clamp would be fired[.]”
“After the depth range is clamped, the depth value is read from the depth stencil buffer, and the two values are compared with a selectable depth-comparison function […]”
“I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.”

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