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Pinched

Pinched Meaning & Definition
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

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