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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



... awkward recognition, and I hope he felt half as uncomfortable as I did. I pinched Penny's arm and hurried him ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... pinched her arm, but she noted that the rich red color flushed his face suddenly, and she wondered, precociously, whether she had accidentally touched upon a secret spot hidden in his heart? The very fact of such ...
— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... do in this state? Shall he doubt everything? Shall he doubt whether he is awake, whether he is being pinched, or whether he is being burned? Shall he doubt whether he doubts? Shall he doubt whether he exists? We cannot go so far as that; and I lay it down as a fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic. ...
— Pascal's Pensees • Blaise Pascal
... to climb the mountain, first through brown woods of beech and oak, then through pine and broom, and then across red stony ledges where only a pinched growth of lentisk and briar spread in patches over the rock. By this time he thought to have reached his goal, but for two more days he fared on through the same scene, with the sky close over him and the green valleys of earth receding far below. Sometimes for ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... Savior, among the primitive Christians! That, for instance, wealth, station, talents, are the standard by which our claims upon, and our regard for, others, should be modified?—That those who are pinched by poverty, worn by disease, tasked in menial labors, or marked by features offensive to the taste of the artificial and capricious, are to be excluded from those refreshing and elevating influences which intelligence and refinement may be expected to exert; that thus they are to constitute ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society


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