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pinched::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious |
pinched::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her.
Examples of pinched
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Manning had surgery on March 3, 2010, to relieve pain caused by a pinched nerve.
From the suntimes.com
Good on the homeowners for being to make it possible for the grub to be pinched.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Yes, the incumbent firms found their profits from executing trades were pinched.
From the newsweek.com
In some parts of Brazil, as much as 20 percent of electricity output is pinched.
From the businessweek.com
The sticks were a nice turn on the pinched fried dumplings one usually expects.
From the orlandosentinel.com
I past it, came back to it, picked it and even pinched a piece off to taste it.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Fruits turn reddish-brown with blotches and need to be pinched off and destroyed.
From the people.co.uk
Medicare isn't the only public health program for seniors that's getting pinched.
From the sacbee.com
I'm sure this pinched reading of the Sunshine Law already has given people ideas.
From the news-journalonline.com
- Adenoidal: sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
- Bony: 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"
- Hard up: not having enough money to pay for necessities
- As if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
- Pinched is a 1917 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
- (Pinching) Sailing too close to the wind
- (Pinching) Illegally removing chips from a bet after an unfavorable decision.
- (Pinching) illegal way of playing when a player removes the chips from the roulette table when the ball landed already.
- (Pinching) Removing terminal buds or growth to stimulate branching.
