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pinched - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'pinched' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pinched [ imp. & p. p.]
- of Pinch

Meaning of 'pinched' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pinched [ s]
Meaning (1):
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Example in sentence:
  • a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys;
  • eyes were haggard and cavernous;
  • kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration;
  • small pinched faces
Meaning (2):
- sounding as if the nose were pinched
Example in sentence:
  • a whining nasal voice
Meaning (3):
- as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
Example in sentence:
  • her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her

Nearby Words:

pin pin-eyed pin-tailed pinaces pinacoid pinacolin pinacone pinacotheca pinafore pinakothek

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