pinched
adjective B2- Very thin, as if drawn together.
- Tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
- Financially hurt or damaged.
- Compressed.
From the library
Do you know, my arm must be black and blue from the elbow up, for I’ve pinched myself so many times today.
“Wake up, Dormouse!” And they pinched it on both sides at once.
The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on: “—that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say things are “much of a muchness”—did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?”
If he was like you say, maybe the cops pinched him before I got there.”
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