Synonyms for pinched
pinched

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1. adenoidal, pinched, nasaladjective

   sounding as if the nose were pinched

   "a whining nasal voice"

   Synonyms:
   wasted, bony, in straitened circumstances(p), haggard, hard up, penurious, skeletal, emaciated, impecunious, adenoidal, penniless, cadaverous, gaunt, nasal, rhinal

   Antonyms:
   low, fat, low-pitched, unconstricted, rich

2. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedadjective

   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:
   haggard, atrophied, in straitened circumstances(p), boney, osteal, diminished, drawn, nasal, senseless, gaunt, adenoidal, squandered, purposeless, penurious, hard up, otiose, penniless, osseous, superfluous, skeletal, cadaveric, cadaverous, careworn, wasted, raddled, bony, impecunious, worn, emaciated, pointless

   Antonyms:
   rich, low, unconstricted, low-pitched, fat

3. hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinchedadjective

   not having enough money to pay for necessities

   Antonyms:
   unconstricted, low, rich, fat, low-pitched

4. pinchedadjective

   as if squeezed uncomfortably tight

   "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"

   Synonyms:
   wasted, bony, in straitened circumstances(p), haggard, hard up, penurious, skeletal, emaciated, impecunious, adenoidal, penniless, cadaverous, gaunt, nasal

   Antonyms:
   low-pitched, low, rich, fat, unconstricted

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1. pinchedadjective

   Synonyms:
   distressed, straitened, reduced, indigent, destitute, needy, poor, necessitous, penniless, moneyless, in need, in want, out of money, out of cash, out of pocket

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1. List of paraphrases for "pinched":

   trapped, caught, punched, nailed

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1. Michael Miranda:

   It gets pinched, very much like Styrofoam, and that’s the impaction injury that she has.

2. Jenna Wheeler:

   The concern with swallowing these toys is that the intestines can become twisted and pinched between the magnets, which can cut off blood flow to the intestines, if that segment of the intestines dies, it may need to be removed. And if not caught early enough, it could even lead to death.

3. Richard Sirico:

   After all the times I was pinched, I knew every judge in town, i was a tough kid. I always had that itch in my britches to find out who I was. I tested my (courage) every night.

4. Thomas Fuller:

   Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.

5. Melissa Benoist:

   I learned what it felt like to be pinned down and slapped repeatedly, punched so hard the wind would go out of me, dragged by my hair across pavement, head-butted, pinched until my skin broke, shoved into a wall so hard the drywall broke, choked.