pinched
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Definition of pinched:
sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
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" not having enough money to pay for necessities as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her" |