pinched

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pinched Definition

• (s) sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
• (s) 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"
• (s) not having enough money to pay for necessities
• (s) as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"

pinched Synonyms

• adenoidal
• bony
• cadaverous
• emaciated
• gaunt
• haggard
• hard up
• impecunious
• in straitened circumstances(p)
• nasal
• penniless
• penurious
• pinched
• skeletal
• wasted