1. (

• pinch ,
• squeeze ,
• twinge ,
• tweet ,
• nip ,
• twitch

) squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" ;

2. (

• crimp ,
• pinch ,

) make ridges into by pinching together ;

3. (

• pilfer ,
• cabbage ,
• purloin ,
• pinch ,
• abstract ,
• snarf ,
• swipe ,
• hook ,
• sneak ,
• filch ,
• nobble ,
• lift

) make off with belongings of others ;

4. (

• top ,
• pinch ,

) cut the top off; "top trees and bushes" ;

5. (

• pinch ,
• vellicate

) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back" ;

1. (

• adenoidal ,
• pinched ,
• nasal

) sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" ;

2. (

• cadaverous ,
• emaciated ,
• gaunt ,
• haggard ,
• pinched ,
• skeletal ,
• wasted

) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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" ;

3. (

• hard_up ,
• impecunious ,
• in_straitened_circumstances ,
• penniless ,
• penurious ,
• pinched

) not having enough money to pay for necessities ;

4. (

• pinched

) as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her" ;