PINCHING definition: 1. present participle of pinch 2. to press something, especially someone's skin, strongly between…. Learn more.

juncture, exigency, emergency, contingency, pinch, strait (or straits) crisis mean a critical or crucial time or state of affairs. juncture stresses the significant concurrence or convergence of events. exigency …

1. The act or an instance of pinching. 2. An amount that can be held between thumb and forefinger: a pinch of salt. 3. Difficulty or hardship: felt the pinch of the recession. 4. An emergency situation: This …

If you pinch a part of someone's body, you take a piece of their skin between your thumb and first finger and give it a short squeeze. She pinched his arm as hard as she could. [VERB noun] We both kept …

to constrict or squeeze painfully, as a tight shoe does. to cramp within narrow bounds or quarters. The crowd pinched him into a corner. to render (the face, body, etc.) unnaturally constricted or drawn, as …

Definition of pinch verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like. to constrict or squeeze painfully, as a tight shoe does. to cramp within narrow bounds or quarters: …

'Pinching' means gripping something tightly between finger and thumb or causing pain or discomfort by squeezing a small area of the body. It can be used in phrases like 'pinch of salt,' meaning a small …

Many people are now being/feeling pinched [= squeezed] by high gasoline prices. The recession is pinching the pocketbooks of many people.

To pinch is to sharply squeeze or grip with your fingers. No matter how much you love your grandma, you probably don't enjoy it when she pinches your cheek and tells you how tall you've gotten.