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say it: pincht
pinched is an adjective meaning "sounding as if the nose were pinched". It is pronounced /ˈpɪntʃt/ — pincht. It carries 4 recorded senses.
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
“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”
not having enough money to pay for necessities
as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
“her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pinched come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.