What is the meaning of pinched?

verb

adjective

  • Sounding as if the nose were pinched.
    • usage: "a whining nasal voice"
  • 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"
  • Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
  • As if squeezed uncomfortably tight.
    • usage: "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
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