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Pinch   /pɪntʃ/   Listen
Pinch

noun
1.
A painful or straitened circumstance.
2.
An injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed.
3.
A slight but appreciable amount.  Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch.
4.
A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action.  Synonyms: emergency, exigency.
5.
A small sharp bite or snip.  Synonym: nip.
6.
A squeeze with the fingers.  Synonym: tweak.
7.
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).  Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody.
verb
(past & past part. pinched; pres. part. pinching)
1.
Squeeze tightly between the fingers.  Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch.  "She squeezed the bottle"
2.
Make ridges into by pinching together.  Synonym: crimp.
3.
Make off with belongings of others.  Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe.
4.
Cut the top off.  Synonym: top.
5.
Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.  Synonym: vellicate.  "The pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"



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"Pinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... scourge of war, Blasts follow blasts, and groves dismantled roar, Around their home the storm-pinch'd CATTLE lows, No nourishment in frozen pastures grows; Yet frozen pastures every morn resound With fair abundance thund'ring to the ground. For though on hoary twigs no buds peep out, And e'en the hardy bramble cease to sprout, Beneath dread WINTER'S level sheets of snow The ...
— The Farmer's Boy - A Rural Poem • Robert Bloomfield
... the receipt: One pint of fresh milk, three-quarters of a cupful of sugar, half a pound of tapioca soaked in cold water four hours, a small teaspoonful of vanilla, a pinch of salt. Heat the milk and stir in the tapioca previously soaked. Mix well and add the sugar. Boil it slowly fifteen minutes, then take it off and beat until nearly cold. Pour into moulds, ...
— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various
... ancestral hate; the theme of Othello is jealousy; the theme of Le Tartufe is hypocrisy; the theme of Caste is fond hearts and coronets; the theme of Getting Married is getting married; the theme of Maternite is maternity. To every play it is possible, at a pinch, to assign a theme; but in many plays it is evident that no theme expressible in abstract terms was present to the author's mind. Nor are these always plays of a low class. It is only by a somewhat artificial process of abstraction that ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer
... insurance of a kind one time. But you Socialist chaps—social reform, Little England for the English, and all that—you swept that away. Wouldn't pay for it; said it wasn't wanted. Now it's gone, and you're feeling the pinch. The worst of it is, you make the rest of us feel it, too. I'm thankful to say the dad's pulling out fairly well. He told me yesterday he hadn't five hundred pounds in anything British. Wise old bird, ...
— The Message • Alec John Dawson
... the nobility were present. The old Duke of Cambridge offered the little General a pinch of snuff, which he declined. The General sang his songs, performed his dances, and cracked his jokes, to the great amusement and delight of the distinguished circle ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton


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