Email this page to a friend

PINCHED





Definition:

  1. [adjective] sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
    Synonyms: adenoidal, nasal

  2. [adjective] 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"
    Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted

  3. [adjective] not having enough money to pay for necessities
    Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious

  4. [adjective] as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"

Synonyms:






Web Standards & Support:

Link to and support eLook.org Powered by LoadedWeb Web Hosting
Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS! eLook.org FireFox Extensions