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pinched

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pinched in WordNet English dictionary

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