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- Dictionarypinched/pɪn(t)ʃt/
adjective
- 1. tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger: "her pinched, sallow face"
- 2. suffering from financial hardship.
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(of someone’s face) thin and anxious, or (of clothing) narrow:
1. a. : to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument. b. : to prune the tip of (a plant or shoot) usually to induce branching. c. : to squeeze or compress painfully. d. : to cause physical or mental pain to. e (1) : to cause to appear thin, haggard, or shrunken. (2) : to cause to shrivel or wither. 2. a.
to press something, especially someone's skin, strongly between two hard things such as a finger and a thumb, usually causing pain: Ouch! Stop pinching (me)! These shoes are too tight, they pinch (my feet ). pinch yourself informal.
1. (of someone's face) thin and pale, usually because of illness or old age. Her face was pinched and drawn. She was a small woman with pinched features. 2. deprived. they lived in pinched circumstances. Many candidates were pinched for campaign funds. The town's a little pinched for money. The car was pinched for rear seat passenger space.
1. To squeeze (something) between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges. 2. To cause pain or discomfort to (a part of the body) by pressing or being too tight: 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.
verb (used without object) to exert a sharp or painful constricting force: This shoe pinches. to cause sharp discomfort or distress: Their stomachs were pinched with hunger. to economize unduly; stint oneself: They pinched and scraped for years to save money for a car.
adjective. not having enough money to pay for necessities. synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious. poor. having little money or few possessions. adjective. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold. “small pinched faces” synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted.
To pinch is to sharply squeeze or grip with your fingers. No matter how much you love your grandma, you probably don't enjoy it when she pinches your cheek and tells you how tall you've gotten.
To pinch something, especially something of little value, means to steal it. [informal] Do you remember when I pinched your glasses? [VERB noun] ...pickpockets who pinched his wallet. [VERB noun] Synonyms: steal, rob, snatch, lift [informal] More Synonyms of pinch. 5. See at a pinch. 6. See feel the pinch. 7. See in a pinch. More Synonyms of pinch.
1. The act or an instance of pinching. 2. An amount that can be held between thumb and forefinger: a pinch of salt. 3. Difficulty or hardship: felt the pinch of the recession.
