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pinched

English

  1. 🔊 as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
    “her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her”
  2. 🔊 sounding as if the nose were pinched
    “a whining nasal voice”
  3. 🔊 very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
    “a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”
  4. 🔊 not having enough money to pay for necessities

Similar words

cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard skeletal wasted adenoidal nasal hard up impecunious in straitened circumstances(p) penniless penurious attenuated badly off cadaverous careworn clamped compressed concentrated condensed consolidated constricted contracted