Dictionary Definition
pinched adj
2 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]
3 not having enough money to pay for necessities
[syn: hard
up, impecunious,
in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious]
4 as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her
pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
pinched- past of pinch
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Cast
- Harold Lloyd
- Snub Pollard
- Bebe Daniels
- William Blaisdell
- Sammy Brooks
- Bud Jamison
- Margaret Joslin - (as Margaret Joslin Todd)
- Gus Leonard
- Fred C. Newmeyer
- Charles Stevenson
- Dorothea Wolbert
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
attenuated, badly off,
cadaverous, careworn, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, corpselike, cramped, desperate, distressed, down to bedrock,
drawn, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, embarrassed, feeling the
pinch, haggard, hard
pressed, hard up, hollow-eyed, ill off, impecunious, in Queer
Street, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, in
narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened
circumstances, jejune,
knitted, land-poor,
marantic, marasmic, narrow, nipped, on the edge, out of
pocket, peaked, peaky, pinched-in, poor, poorly off, puckered, puny, pursed, reduced, short, short of cash, short of
funds, short of money, shriveled, skeletal, solidified, sorely pressed,
squeezed, starved, starveling, straitened, strangled, strangulated, strapped, tabetic, tabid, underfed, undernourished, unmoneyed, unprosperous, up against
it, wasp-waisted, wasted,
weazeny, withered, wizened, worn, wraithlike, wrinkled