1. (noun) pinch
a painful or straitened circumstance
Synonyms: speck, emergency, jot, apprehension, touch, catch, tinge, soupcon, taking into custody, arrest, mite, collar, tweak, hint, exigency
2. (noun) pinch
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, exigency
3. (noun) touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
a slight but appreciable amount
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, pinch, 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, mote
4. (noun) emergency, exigency, pinch
a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
Synonyms: jot, soupcon, touch, exigency, hand brake, tinge, tweak, catch, emergency brake, speck, hint, pinch, collar, mite, apprehension, taking into custody, arrest, emergency, parking brake
5. (noun) nip, pinch
a small sharp bite or snip
Synonyms: jot, apprehension, chilliness, touch, flavour, exigency, collar, tinge, relish, tanginess, piquantness, pinch, zest, savour, flavor, piquance, soupcon, catch, smack, speck, hint, coolness, tweak, mite, emergency, piquancy, sapidity, taking into custody, arrest, tang, savor, shot
6. (noun) pinch, tweak
a squeeze with the fingers
Synonyms: apprehension, jot, soupcon, touch, exigency, collar, tweak, catch, speck, hint, pinch, mite, tinge, taking into custody, arrest, emergency
7. (verb) apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
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, pinch, stay, apprehensiveness, dread, savvy, gimmick, grab, haul, choker, check
8. (verb) pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch
squeeze tightly between the fingers
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, pinch, swipe, wring, mash, coerce, snip off, wedge, squelch, snip, constrict, crush, vellicate
9. (verb) crimp, pinch
make ridges into by pinching together
Synonyms: tweet, twitch, crape, filch, sneak, hook, snarf, kink up, frizz, frizzle, crimp, twinge, cabbage, nobble, pinch, squeeze, kink, lift, top, swipe, purloin, pilfer, vellicate, abstract
10. (verb) pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
make off with belongings of others
Synonyms: 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, pinch, 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, glom
11. (verb) top, pinch
cut the top off
Synonyms: crown, twitch, cabbage, filch, sneak, hook, top off, exceed, swipe, snarf, purloin, vellicate, clear, crimp, twinge, tweet, nobble, overstep, pinch, top out, go past, squeeze, lead, transcend, pass, pilfer, top, lift, abstract
12. (verb) pinch, vellicate
irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
Synonyms: tweet, tickle, twitch, cabbage, filch, sneak, hook, snarf, pinch, purloin, top, crimp, twinge, nobble, titillate, squeeze, lift, vellicate, swipe, pilfer, abstract
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