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Pinched

Pinched Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Pinched? [adj] 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" [adj] sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" [adj] as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her" [adj] not having enough money to pay for necessities Synonyms \| Synonyms for Pinched: adenoidal \| bony \| cadaverous \| constricted \| emaciated \| gaunt \| haggard \| hard up \| high \| high-pitched \| impecunious \| in straitened circumstances(p) \| lean \| nasal \| penniless \| penurious \| poor \| skeletal \| thin \| wasted Related Terms \| Find terms related to Pinched: attenuated \| badly off \| cadaverous \| careworn \| clamped \| compressed \| concentrated \| condensed \| consolidated \| constricted \| contracted \| corpselike \| cramped \| desperate \| distressed \| down to bedrock \| drawn \| emacerated \| emaciate \| emaciated \| embarrassed \| feeling the pinch \| haggard \| hard pressed \| hard up \| hollow-eyed \| ill off \| impecunious \| in desperate straits \| in extremis \| in extremities \| in narrow circumstances \| in Queer Street \| in reduced circumstances \| in straitened circumstances \| jejune \| knitted \| land-poor \| marantic \| marasmic \| narrow \| nipped \| on the edge \| out of pocket \| peaked \| peaky \| pinched-in \| poor \| poorly off \| puckered \| puny \| pursed \| reduced \| short \| short of cash \| short of funds \| short of money \| shriveled \| skeletal \| solidified \| sorely pressed \| squeezed \| starved \| starveling \| straitened \| strangled \| strangulated \| strapped \| tabetic \| tabid \| underfed \| undernourished \| unmoneyed \| unprosperous \| up against it \| wasp-waisted \| wasted \| weazeny \| withered \| wizened \| worn \| wraithlike \| wrinkled See Also \|

Pinched Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pinched?

[adj] 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"
[adj] sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
[adj] as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
[adj] not having enough money to pay for necessities

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