pinched

Adjective
  1. Sounding as if the nose were pinched (synset 301216222)
    "a whining nasal voice"
    similar to: high, high-pitched - used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency
    same as: adenoidal, nasal
  2. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold (synset 300992194)
    "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
    similar to: lean, thin - lacking excess flesh
    same as: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted
  3. Not having enough money to pay for necessities (synset 302030912)
    similar to: poor - having little money or few possessions
    same as: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious
  4. As if squeezed uncomfortably tight (synset 301451752)
    "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
    similar to: constricted - drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically

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