What is the meaning of pinched?

verb

• Squeeze tightly between the fingers.
  • usage: "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"
  • synonyms: pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch
• Make ridges into by pinching together.
  • synonyms: crimp, pinch
• Make off with belongings of others.
  • synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
• Cut the top off.
  • usage: "top trees and bushes"
  • synonyms: top, pinch
• Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.
  • usage: "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"
  • synonyms: pinch, vellicate

adjective

• Sounding as if the nose were pinched.
  • usage: "a whining nasal voice"
  • synonyms: adenoidal, nasal
• Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"