pinched

pinch  (pnch)

v. pinched, pinch·ing, pinch·es

v.tr.

1. To squeeze between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges.

2. To squeeze or bind (a part of the body) in a way that causes discomfort or pain: These shoes pinch my toes.

3. To nip, wither, or shrivel: buds that were pinched by the frost; a face that was pinched with grief.

4. To straiten: "A year and a half of the blockade has pinched Germany" (William L. Shirer).

5. Slang To take (money or property) unlawfully. See Synonyms at steal.

6. Slang To take into custody; arrest.

7. To move (something) with a pinch bar.

8. Nautical To sail (a boat) so close into the wind that its sails shiver and its speed is reduced.

v.intr.

1. To press, squeeze, or bind painfully: This collar pinches.

2. To be miserly.

3. Nautical To drag an oar at the end of a stroke.

n.

1. The act or an instance of pinching.

2. An amount that can be held between thumb and forefinger: a pinch of salt.

3. A painful, difficult, or straitened circumstance: felt the pinch of the recession.

4. An emergency situation: This coat will do in a pinch.

5. A narrowing of a mineral deposit, as in a mine.

6. Informal A theft.

7. Slang An arrest by a law enforcement officer.

adj. Baseball

Relating to pinch-hitting or pinch runners: a pinch single; a pinch steal of third base.

Idiom:

pinch pennies Informal

To be thrifty or miserly.

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[Middle English pinchen, from Old North French *pinchier, variant of Old French pincier, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *pnctire.]

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	pinched - sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" adenoidal, nasal high-pitched, high - used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency
	2.	pinched - 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" bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
	3.	pinched - not having enough money to pay for necessities hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious poor - having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
	4.	pinched - as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her" constricted - drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically; "a constricted blood vessel"; "a constricted view of life"

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pinched

adjective thin, starved, worn, drawn, gaunt, haggard, careworn, peaky << OPPOSITE plump

Translations

pinched [pɪntʃt] adj (= drawn) → cansado;

pinched with cold → transido de frío;

pinched for money/space → mal or falto de dinero/espacio or sitio

pinched [pɪntʃt] adj (= drawn) → tiré(e);

pinched with cold → transi(e) de froid;

pinched for (= short of);

pinched for money → à court d'argent;

pinched for space → à l'étroit

pinched [pɪntʃt] pinch adj [face] → erschöpft;

pinched with cold pinch → verfroren

pinched [pɪntʃt] adj (= drawn) → dai lineamenti tirati (= short): pinched for money/space → a corto di soldi/di spazio;

pinched with cold → raggrinzito dal freddo