pinched

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(of a person's face) pale and thin, especially because of illness, cold or worry: His features were greyish and pinched.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

pinchedEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus pinchedEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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pimento pimp pimpernel pimple pin PIN pinafore pinball pince-nez pincer pincer movement

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In this entry, pinched is tagged as adjective.

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