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English Dictionary: pinched	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pinched
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pinched adj sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" Synonym(s): adenoidal, pinched, nasal very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" Synonym(s): bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted not having enough money to pay for necessities Synonym(s): hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pinch \Pinch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pinched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pinching}.] [F. pincer, probably fr. OD. pitsen to pinch; akin to G. pfetzen to cut, pinch; perhaps of Celtic origin. Cf. {Piece}.] 1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. 2. o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.] He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. --Chapman. 3. To plait. [Obs.] Full seemly her wimple ipinched was. --Chaucer. 4. Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money. Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation. --Sir W. Raleigh. 5. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See {Pinch}, n., 4.