achieve vs clinch

achieve

verb
  • To carry out successfully; to accomplish. 

  • Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved. 

  • To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance. 

  • To obtain (a material thing). 

  • To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. 

clinch

verb
  • To make certain; to finalize. 

  • To clasp; to interlock. 

  • To embrace passionately. 

  • To hold firmly; to clench. 

  • To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed. 

  • To set closely together; to close tightly. 

  • To fasten securely or permanently. 

noun
  • Any of several fastenings. 

  • A passionate embrace. 

  • The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast. 

  • The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling. 

  • A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts. 

How often have the words achieve and clinch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )