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Pinch
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1. pinch
a painful or straitened circumstance
Example Sentences:'the pinch of the recession'
2. pinch
an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
3. hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch
a slight but appreciable amount
Example Sentences:'this dish could use a touch of garlic'
a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
Example Sentences:'he never knew what to do in an emergency'
7. apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
Example Sentences:'the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar'
Verb
8. nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch
squeeze tightly between the fingers
Example Sentences:'He pinched her behind''She squeezed the bottle'
10. abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe
make off with belongings of others
12. pinch, vellicate
irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
Example Sentences:'smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth''the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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