Crossword clues for pinched
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
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to seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.]
He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.
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To plait. [Obs.]
Full seemly her wimple ipinched was.
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Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation.
--Sir W. Raleigh. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift. [Slang]
--Robert Barr.to catch; to arrest (a criminal).
Wiktionary
1 Very thin 2 Compressed v
(en-past of: pinch)
WordNet
adj. sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" [syn: adenoidal, nasal]
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, skeletal, wasted]
not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious]
as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
Wikipedia
Pinched is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. A print of the film is held by the Museum of Modern Art, and it has been released on DVD.
Usage examples of "pinched".
But I remember the pinched little self-hating man who came to my auberge forty years ago.
Then he pinched her chin in an almost avuncular fashion and, to her mixed regret and relief, released it.
Sometimes, it was when Vetch moved a little too quickly, once, when Baken accidentally pinched a fold of skin while harnessing him.
Captain Bazan Deralta had an old, lined face with tufted eyebrows and a pinched nose set above a firm mouth and prominent jaw.
They walk in the middle of winter with their poor little toes pinched into a miniature slipper, incapable of excluding as much moisture as might bedew a primrose.
Elora pinched her extra hard, and Caille locked her hands in with her strong little forearms.
Your clochard pinched it, hung Auguste on the pull-and-let-go to conceal his crime, was then seized by remorse and cut himself.
Working through wicked airs and deadly dews That make the laden robber grin askance At the good places in his black romance, And the poor, loitering harlot rather choose Go pinched and pined to bed Than lurk and shiver and curse her wretched way From arch to arch, scouting some threepenny prey.
For the pinched are here, the dinnerless, the weedy, the gutter-growths, the forces repressing them.
Old Cooper who dealt with insurance came into the room at his doddery pace and looked at the mess with cross disgust and pinched nostrils.
Sanders pinched her donut between her thumb and forefinger, and ticked off the points she wanted to make on her remaining fingers.
It would be hell on wheels to be pinched right now and face a drinkless tomorrow.
In this sort I was houlden in an intrycate minde of doubts, at length ouercome withall kinde of greefes, my whole bodye trembling and languishinge vnder a broade and mightye Oke full of Acornes, standing in the middest of a spatious and large green meade, extending forth his thicke and leauie armes to make a coole shadowe, vnder whose bodye breathing I rested my selfe vppon the deawye hearbes, and lying vppon my left syde I drewe my breath in the freshe ayre more shortly betwixt my drye and wrinckled lips, then the weary running heart, pinched in the haunche and struck in the brest, not able any longer to beare vp his weighty head, or sustaine his body vpon his bowing knees, but dying prostrates himselfe.
We may be sure that these new shoes were large enough and never pinched the feet of the wearers.
The face was pinched and sharp, framed by a small black beard and lined with pain.