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Määritelmät
Verbit
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
- (slang) To arrest or capture.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
- To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
Substantiivit
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
Esimerkit
- The children were scolded for pinching each other.
- This shoe pinches my foot.
- Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.
- Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
- the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare
- He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.
- to be pinched for money
- want of room [...] pinching a whole nation
- It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.
- If you pinch your pennies, soon it will add up to many dollars.
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