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Exact Match:

pinch

a squeeze with the fingers

an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed

a painful or straitened circumstance; "the pinch of the recession"

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"

squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"

Synonyms:

• abstract,
• ace,
• acute pain,
• afflict,
• agonize,
• ail,
• alternate,
• alternative,
• and,
• annex,
• apprehend,
• apprehension,
• approach,
• appropriate,
• arrest,
• arrestation,
• arrestment,
• atom,
• backup,
• bag,
• bare cupboard,
• bare subsistence,
• beat,
• beat to windward,
• beggarliness,
• beggary,
• begrudge,
• bind,
• bit,
• bite,
• boost,
• boring pain,
• borrow,
• breakers ahead,
• burglary,
• burn,
• bust,
• caper,
• capture,
• cardhouse,
• catch,
• cause for alarm,
• center,
• centralize,
• chafe,
• charley horse,
• clamp,
• clamping,
• clamping down,
• climacteric,
• close,
• close in,
• close up,
• close with,
• close-haul,
• clutch,
• collar,
• come together,
• complication,
• compress,
• compression,
• compulsion,
• concenter,
• concentralize,
• concentrate,
• confine,
• constraint,
• contingency,
• converge,
• convergence of events,
• convulse,
• cop,
• counterfeit,
• cramp,
• cramps,
• crib,
• crick,
• crisis,
• critical juncture,
• critical point,
• crossroads,
• crucial period,
• crucify,
• crunch,
• crush,
• crux,
• cubby,
• cubbyhole,
• cut,
• dab,
• danger,
• dangerous ground,
• darting pain,
• defraud,
• deprivation,
• destitution,
• difficulty,
• dilemma,
• distress,
• doghouse,
• dole,
• dot,
• dram,
• dribble,
• driblet,
• drive,
• dummy,
• dwarf,
• economize,
• embarrassing position,
• embarrassment,
• embezzle,
• emergency,
• empty purse,
• endangerment,
• ensphere,
• equivalent,
• ersatz,
• exact,
• excruciate,
• exigency,
• extort,
• extremity,
• fake,
• fall in with,
• famish,
• farthing,
• fester,
• filch,
• fine how-do-you-do,
• fleck,
• flyspeck,
• fragment,
• fret,
• fulgurant pain,
• funnel,
• gall,
• gaping chasm,
• gathering clouds,
• girdle pain,
• give pain,
• gnaw,
• gnawing,
• gobbet,
• gouge,
• grab,
• grain,
• granule,
• grasp,
• grate,
• grind,
• grinding poverty,
• grip,
• gripe,
• griping,
• groat,
• grudge,
• hair,
• hand-to-mouth existence,
• handful,
• harrow,
• hazard,
• heist,
• hell to pay,
• high pressure,
• hinge,
• hitch,
• hobble,
• hole,
• homelessness,
• hook,
• hot water,
• house of cards,
• how-do-you-do,
• hurt,
• imbroglio,
• imitation,
• imperativeness,
• imperilment,
• impoverishment,
• impulse,
• impulsion,
• indigence,
• inflame,
• inflict pain,
• intersect,
• iota,
• irritate,
• jam,
• jeopardy,
• job,
• joker,
• jot,
• jumping pain,
• kill by inches,
• kink,
• knock off,
• lacerate,
• lack,
• lancinating pain,
• lift,
• little,
• little bit,
• live upon nothing,
• luff,
• luff up,
• make a pinch,
• make off with,
• makeshift,
• martyr,
• martyrize,
• meet,
• menace,
• mendicancy,
• mess,
• minim,
• minimum,
• minutiae,
• mite,
• mix,
• mock,
• modicum,
• molecule,
• moneylessness,
• morass,
• mote,
• nab,
• narrow the gap,
• necessitousness,
• necessity,
• need,
• neediness,
• netting,
• nick,
• nip,
• nutshell,
• ounce,
• pain,
• palm,
• pang,
• parlous straits,
• paroxysm,
• particle,
• pass,
• pauperism,
• pauperization,
• pebble,
• penury,
• peril,
• phony,
• pickle,
• pickup,
• pierce,
• pigeonhole,
• pilfer,
• pinch pennies,
• pittance,
• playhouse,
• plight,
• ply,
• poach,
• point,
• predicament,
• press,
• pressure,
• pretty pass,
• pretty pickle,
• pretty predicament,
• prick,
• privation,
• prolong the agony,
• provisional,
• proxy,
• pull in,
• purloin,
• push,
• put to torture,
• quagmire,
• quicksand,
• rack,
• rankle,
• rash impulse,
• rasp,
• reserve,
• rip-off,
• risk,
• rob,
• robbery,
• rocks ahead,
• rub,
• run away with,
• run in,
• run together,
• rustle,
• sail fine,
• save,
• scamp,
• scant,
• scrape,
• screw,
• scrimp,
• scrounge,
• scruple,
• secondary,
• seizure,
• shake,
• sharp pain,
• shoot,
• shooting,
• shooting pain,
• shoplift,
• skimp,
• slough,
• smidgen,
• smidgin,
• smitch,
• snag,
• snare,
• snatch,
• snitch,
• soupcon,
• spare,
• spasm,
• speck,
• spoonful,
• spot,
• squeeze,
• squeezing,
• stab,
• stabbing pain,
• starve,
• steal,
• stew,
• sticky wicket,
• sting,
• stint,
• stitch,
• stopgap,
• storm clouds,
• strait,
• straits,
• stress,
• substitute,
• swamp,
• swindle,
• swipe,
• tad,
• take,
• take into custody,
• taper,
• taste,
• temporary,
• tension,
• tentative,
• theft,
• thieve,
• thimbleful,
• thin ice,
• threat,
• thrill,
• throes,
• tight spot,
• tight squeeze,
• tighten,
• tightening,
• tightrope,
• tiny bit,
• tittle,
• tormen,
• torment,
• torture,
• touch,
• touch the wind,
• tricky spot,
• trifling amount,
• trivia,
• turn,
• turning,
• turning point,
• tweak,
• twinge,
• twist,
• twitch,
• unholy mess,
• unite,
• urge,
• urgency,
• utility,
• vicarious,
• wad up,
• walk off with,
• want,
• whit,
• wound,
• wrench,
• wring