English

Verb

pinched

1. simple past tense and past participle of pinch

Derived terms

• pinched look

Adjective

pinched

1. Very thin
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, chapter 1, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:

     He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time.

2. (of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
3. Compressed
   • 2010, Clifford D. Stark & ‎Elizabeth Shimer Bowers, Living with Sports Injuries, ISBN 1438130767, page 40:

     If your sport makes you prone to violent neck motions, you are at risk for a pinched nerve. A pinched nerve occurs when a cervical disc ruptures, and the jellylike material from inside the disc presses on a nerve.

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