'Nipped' definitions:
Definition of 'Nipped'
From: GCIDE
- Nip \Nip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nipped, less properly Nipt; p. pr. & vb. n. Nipping.] [OE. nipen; cf. D. niipen to pinch, also knippen to nip, clip, pinch, snap, knijpen to pinch, LG. knipen, G. kneipen, kneifen, to pinch, cut off, nip, Lith. knebti.]
- 1. To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. [1913 Webster]
- May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. [1913 Webster]
- The small shoots . . . must be nipped off. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. [1913 Webster]
- And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- To nip in the bud, to cut off at the very commencement of growth; to kill in the incipient stage. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nipped'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- bobbed,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- cramped,
- cropped,
- curtailed,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- knitted,
- mowed,
- mown,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reaped,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- trimmed,
- wasp-waisted,
- wrinkled