Found 4 items, similar to Pinched.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: pinch mencubit
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: pinched gentas
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pinched pinched adj 1: sounding as if the nose were pinched; “a whining nasal voice” [syn: adenoidal, nasal] 2: 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” [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted] 3: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up , impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious] 4: as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; “her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pinched Pinch \Pinch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinching.] [F. pincer, probably fr. OD. pitsen to pinch; akin to G. pfetzen to cut, pinch; perhaps of Celtic origin. Cf. Piece.] 1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. [1913 Webster] 2. to seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] 3. To plait. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Full seemly her wimple ipinched was. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 4. Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money. [1913 Webster] Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] 5. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4. [1913 Webster] 6. To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift. [Slang] --Robert Barr. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 7. to catch; to arrest (a criminal). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]