Definitions for pinched

Definitions for (adj) pinched

Main entry: haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, bony, emaciated, gaunt, wasted, pinched

Definition: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Usage: 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


Main entry: pinched, adenoidal, nasal

Definition: sounding as if the nose were pinched

Usage: a whining nasal voice


Main entry: pinched

Definition: as if squeezed uncomfortably tight

Usage: her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her


Main entry: impecunious, in straitened circumstances, hard up, penniless, penurious, pinched

Definition: not having enough money to pay for necessities


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