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Antonyms for pinch
pɪntʃpinch
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term pinch.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
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pinchnoun
a painful or straitened circumstance
"the pinch of the recession"
Synonyms:
speck, emergency, jot, apprehension, touch, catch, tinge, soupcon, taking into custody, arrest, mite, collar, tweak, hint, exigencypinchnoun
an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
Synonyms:
speck, emergency, jot, apprehension, touch, catch, tinge, soupcon, taking into custody, arrest, mite, collar, tweak, hint, exigencytouch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupconnoun
a slight but appreciable amount
"this dish could use a touch of garlic"
Synonyms:
hint, touch, touch sensation, signature, intimation, mite, jot, wind, spot, apprehension, corpuscle, sense of touch, exigency, cutaneous senses, suggestion, confidential information, lead, arrest, touch modality, tactile sensation, tinge, soupcon, ghost, speck, touching, particle, clue, taking into custody, steer, undertone, tactual sensation, skin senses, jotting, molecule, atom, pinpoint, collar, emergency, tweak, breath, feeling, contact, catch, trace, tip, moteemergency, exigency, pinchnoun
a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
"he never knew what to do in an emergency"
Synonyms:
jot, soupcon, touch, exigency, hand brake, tinge, tweak, catch, emergency brake, speck, hint, collar, mite, apprehension, taking into custody, arrest, emergency, parking brakenip, pinchnoun
a small sharp bite or snip
Synonyms:
jot, apprehension, chilliness, touch, flavour, exigency, collar, tinge, relish, tanginess, piquantness, zest, savour, flavor, piquance, soupcon, catch, smack, speck, hint, coolness, tweak, mite, emergency, piquancy, sapidity, taking into custody, arrest, tang, savor, shotpinch, tweaknoun
a squeeze with the fingers
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apprehension, jot, soupcon, touch, exigency, collar, tweak, catch, speck, hint, mite, tinge, taking into custody, arrest, emergencyapprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custodyverb
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
"the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
Synonyms:
hitch, hint, touch, understanding, mite, jot, stoppage, apprehension, catch, halt, shoe collar, dog collar, snap, match, snatch, tinge, soupcon, exigency, speck, neckband, collar, taking into custody, leash, stop, discernment, misgiving, emergency, arrest, tweak, stay, apprehensiveness, dread, savvy, gimmick, grab, haul, choker, checkpinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitchverb
squeeze tightly between the fingers
"He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"
Synonyms:
cabbage, hook, pressure, nobble, thrust, clip, rack, sting, hale, filch, twitch, gouge, tweet, top, jerk, force, lift, shove, crimp, abstract, twinge, compress, hug, flip, pilfer, embrace, prick, purloin, snarf, compact, press, extort, stuff, squeeze, sneak, contract, squash, nip off, bosom, twirp, swipe, wring, mash, coerce, snip off, wedge, squelch, snip, constrict, crush, vellicatecrimp, pinchverb
make ridges into by pinching together
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tweet, twitch, crape, filch, sneak, hook, snarf, kink up, frizz, frizzle, crimp, twinge, cabbage, nobble, squeeze, kink, lift, top, swipe, purloin, pilfer, vellicate, abstractpilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, liftverb
make off with belongings of others
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elevate, snitch, rook, mouse, hook, top, victimize, nobble, uprise, arise, cop, cabbage, repeal, abstract, kidnap, vellicate, crimp, snarf, lift, con, vacate, defraud, hornswoggle, reverse, pussyfoot, go up, plagiarise, bring up, airlift, raise, rob, plume, revoke, pilfer, accost, overcharge, knock off, sneak, rise, abduct, move up, thieve, addict, crochet, filch, get up, squeeze, gyp, swindle, come up, creep, diddle, wind, pluck, swipe, solicit, countermand, bunco, twitch, rear, soak, rustle, hoist, short-change, goldbrick, snatch, purloin, scam, tweet, snare, face-lift, fleece, mulct, gip, plagiarize, gazump, surcharge, twinge, rescind, annul, slip, overturn, glomtop, pinchverb
cut the top off
"top trees and bushes"
Synonyms:
crown, twitch, cabbage, filch, sneak, hook, top off, exceed, swipe, snarf, purloin, vellicate, clear, crimp, twinge, tweet, nobble, overstep, top out, go past, squeeze, lead, transcend, pass, pilfer, top, lift, abstractpinch, vellicateverb
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"
Synonyms:
tweet, tickle, twitch, cabbage, filch, sneak, hook, snarf, purloin, top, crimp, twinge, nobble, titillate, squeeze, lift, vellicate, swipe, pilfer, abstract
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
How to use pinch in a sentence?
Every pinch hurts, suppliers are telling us to prepare for higher prices. One chicken now might cost a dollar more, but where will I get the extra money I need to buy 100 birds for sale ? Will my customers also accept the costs ?
I was nervous. I was excited. It was surreal, i still have to pinch Edward Martell sometimes.
I try to take all the toing and froing with a pinch of salt, i'm inclined to believe they will make an agreement, maybe not on the day, and find money down the back of the sofa in the meantime.
If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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