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pinched

3.9

A body part pressed so tightly that it hurts

adjective
/pɪnʧt/

: apretado

She winced as the tight shoes left her toes feeling pinched and sore.

Examples

After sitting on the hard bench for hours, my legs felt pinched and uncomfortable.
Yeah, you're so pinched I can't breathe.
And basically it's just kind of pinched or gathered on the side.
I think that my pinched measurements may have been slightly off.
So what I'm doing, this brush is kind of pinched at the top, if you can see that.
I've lost my pinched my pinched inches.
When it was frosty, the day was pinched and dark like the shadows inside a cloak.
His pinched expression showed the discomfort he was feeling from the chill in the air.

Synonyms

squashed

vspinched

3.3

Crushed or pressed so it becomes flat and loses its shape

is a tight localized squeeze that causes discomfort or pain rather than flattening

Antonyms

comfortable

494 1.0

Not feeling pain or physical discomfort

loose

155 1.0

Not tight so it can move or fall off

How Tight

squeezing

4 2.0

pinched

3.9

taut

30 4.8

tight

6 1.0

Surface Forms

pinched positive

Morphology

pinched = pinch (transparent) = pinch + ed

The bodily sense ('squeezed or pressed') is a direct, literal resultative formation from 'pinch' + '-ed'.

Etymology

Pinched comes from the verb pinch, meaning 'to squeeze'. So if a part of the body is 'pinched' it is pressed tight and uncomfortable, like when a hat or shoe leaves a painful mark.