pinched
/pˈɪntʃt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of pinch
adj
Very thin, as if drawn together.
adj
Financially hurt or damaged.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Want of food was my chief trouble the first summer at my old master's. Oysters and clams would do very well, with an occasional supply of bread, but they soon failed in the absence of bread. I speak but the simple truth, when I say, I have often been so pinched with hunger, that I have fought with the dog—"Old Nep"—for the smallest crumbs that fell from the kitchen table, and have been glad when I won a single crumb in the combat."
- "His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark […]"
- "He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time."
- "If your sport makes you prone to violent neck motions, you are at risk for a pinched nerve. A pinched nerve occurs when a cervical disc ruptures, and the jellylike material from inside the disc presses on a nerve."
Inflected Forms
more pinched (comparative)
most pinched (superlative)