'Pinched' definitions:
Definition of 'pinched'
(from WordNet)
adjective
adjective
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" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
adjective
Not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched]
adjective
As if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
Definition of 'Pinched'
From: GCIDE
- Pinch \Pinch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinching.] [F. pincer, probably fr. OD. pitsen to pinch; akin to G. pfetzen to cut, pinch; perhaps of Celtic origin. Cf. Piece.]
- 1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. to seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To plait. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Full seemly her wimple ipinched was. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money. [1913 Webster]
- Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift. [Slang] --Robert Barr. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 7. to catch; to arrest (a criminal). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'pinched'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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