Overview of verb pinch

The verb pinch has 5 senses

• pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch -- (squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle")


• crimp, pinch -- (make ridges into by pinching together)


• pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift -- (make off with belongings of others)


• top, pinch -- (cut the top off; "top trees and bushes")


• pinch, vellicate -- (irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back")

Overview of adj pinched

The adj pinched has 4 senses

• adenoidal, pinched, nasal -- (sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice")


• bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted -- (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")


• hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched -- (not having enough money to pay for necessities)


• pinched -- (as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her")