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  Definition of pinched
  1. 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"
  2. sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
  3. as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
  4. not having enough money to pay for necessities
Similar Words: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted, adenoidal, nasal, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious

 

 
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