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Open English Wordnet Nouns (n) pinch a painful or straitened circumstance “the pinch of the recession”
(n) pinch an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
(n) emergency , exigency , pinch a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action “he never knew what to do in an emergency”
Verbs (v) crimp , pinch make ridges into by pinching together
(v) pilfer , cabbage , purloin , pinch , abstract , snarf , swipe , hook , sneak , filch , nobble , lift make off with belongings of others
(v) top , pinch cut the top off “top trees and bushes”
(v) pinch , vellicate irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear “smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth” ,
“the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back”