pinch

Meaning of pinch

noun
  1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.
    I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
  3. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
  4. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
  5. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
  6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
  7. A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
  8. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
  9. An arrest.
verb
  1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
    The children were scolded for pinching each other.
  2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
  3. To squeeze between two objects.
  4. To steal, usually something inconsequential.
    Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
  5. To arrest or capture.
  6. To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
  7. To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
  8. To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  9. To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
  10. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
  11. To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
    to be pinched for money
  12. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
  13. To complain or find fault.

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Hyphenation of pinch

pinch

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • pinch is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

pinch synonyms

Meaning touch:

touch, hint, tinge, mite, jot, speck

Meaning emergency:

emergency, exigency

Meaning nip:

nip

Meaning tweak:

tweak

Meaning apprehension:

apprehension, arrest, catch, collar

Meaning squeeze:

squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch

Meaning crimp:

crimp

Meaning pilfer:

pilfer, cabbage, purloin, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift

Meaning top:

top

Meaning vellicate:

vellicate

Translation of pinch

Words that rhyme with pinch

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