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Pinch   /pɪntʃ/   Listen
Pinch

noun
1.
A painful or straitened circumstance.
2.
An injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed.
3.
A slight but appreciable amount.  Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch.
4.
A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action.  Synonyms: emergency, exigency.
5.
A small sharp bite or snip.  Synonym: nip.
6.
A squeeze with the fingers.  Synonym: tweak.
7.
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).  Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody.
verb
(past & past part. pinched; pres. part. pinching)
1.
Squeeze tightly between the fingers.  Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch.  "She squeezed the bottle"
2.
Make ridges into by pinching together.  Synonym: crimp.
3.
Make off with belongings of others.  Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe.
4.
Cut the top off.  Synonym: top.
5.
Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.  Synonym: vellicate.  "The pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"



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"Pinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... believes in the girl who has the capacity for making mistakes,—that headlong, energetic spirit which blunders all too easily. But the writer knows how much those mistakes hurt and how much energy might be saved for a life that, with just a pinch less of blunder, might be none the less savoury. School and college are no place for vocal soloists, and after some of us have sung so sweetly and so long at home, with every one saying, "Just hear Mary sing, isn't it wonderful!" it is rather trying, ...
— A Girl's Student Days and After • Jeannette Marks
... calculated to do the most good. There was little of the deer's breast exposed as with lowered head he charged toward this new enemy. But Max had all the necessary requisites that go to make up the good hunter—a quick eye, a sure hand, and excellent judgment in a pinch. ...
— With Trapper Jim in the North Woods • Lawrence J. Leslie
... in great vse, so is there much deceite in it, some play vppon the prick, some pinch the cardes priuily with their nailes, some turne vp the corners, some marke them with fine spots of Inck, some there be that trauell into Spaine and into Italie to learne fine tricks and quaint conueyances, ...
— The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine • Samuel Rid
... worshipped. The term Waghya is derived from vagh, a tiger, and has been given to the order on account of the small bag of tiger-skin, containing bhandar, or powdered turmeric, which they carry round their necks. This has been consecrated to Khandoba and they apply a pinch of it to the foreheads of those who give them alms. Murli, signifying 'a flute' is the name given to female devotees. Waghya is a somewhat indefinite term and in the Central Provinces does not strictly denote a caste. ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell
... enough for one night. I left a generous pinch of salt where he could find it easily, and crept in to sleep, leaving him to his own ...
— Ways of Wood Folk • William J. Long


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