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Pinched   /pɪntʃt/   Listen
verb
Pinch  v. t.  (past & past part. pinched; pres. part. pinching)  
1.
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.
2.
To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals. (Obs.) "He (the hound) pinched and pulled her down."
3.
To plait. (Obs.) "Full seemly her wimple ipinched was."
4.
Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money. "Want of room... pinching a whole nation."
5.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
6.
To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift. (Slang)
7.
To catch; to arrest (a criminal).


Pinch  v. i.  
1.
To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
2.
(Hunt.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does. (Obs.)
3.
To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous. "The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare."
To pinch at, to find fault with; to take exception to. (Obs.)





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"Pinched" Quotes from Famous Books



... him a growing restlessness. He had not been slow to recognise, by the unpleasant scenes that again became daily occurrences in our married life, at what point the shoe pinched that I had good-naturedly put on again at his request. However, when one day I reminded him that in coming hack to Zurich I had other objects in view besides the longing for a quiet domestic life, ...
— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner
... The others saw a tall, broad-shouldered man leaning heavily forward over the bar of the prisoner's box. His face was white with the prison tan, markedly so in contrast with those sunburnt by the wind and sun turned toward him, and pinched and hollow-eyed and worn. When he spoke, his voice had the huskiness which comes from non-use, and cracked ...
— The Exiles and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... moderate-sized table and the surrounding high-backed chairs. There was a tent-stitch rug before the Dutch-tiled fireplace, and on the walls hung two framed prints,—one representing the stately and graceful Duke of Marlborough; the other, the small, dark, pinched, but fiery Prince Eugene. On the spotless white cloth was spread a frugal meal of bread, butter, cheese, and lettuce; a jug of milk, another of water, and a bottle of cowslip wine; for the habits of the family were more than usually ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... responded, but Alfred pinched his arm; the old man understood what was meant, and held his tongue; at last ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat
... printed the legend, "Superintendent of Complaints." Inside, a man was dictating a letter to a stenographer. The bow-legged man in the wrinkled suit waited awkwardly until the letter was finished, twirling in his hands a white, broad-rimmed hat with pinched-in crown. He was chewing tobacco. He wondered whether it would be "etiquette" to squirt the juice into a waste-paper ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine


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