pinching

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.

1. The act of one who or that which pinches.
2. The act of pinching off new growth.

adjective

That pinches, or causes such a sensation