Definition of 'pinched'
See also: pinch
Adjective
- sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
Synonyms: adenoidal nasal - 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"
Synonyms: bony cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard skeletal wasted - not having enough money to pay for necessities
Synonyms: hard up impecunious in straitened circumstances penniless penurious - as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
