English Dictionary

pinched

adj

Very thin, as if drawn together / (of a person or their face) Tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger. / Financially hurt or damaged. / Compressed

She looked pinched in her tight dress.

意味（1）

Very thin, as if drawn together

Want of food was my chief trouble the first summer at my old master's. Oysters and clams would do very well, with an occasional supply of bread, but they soon failed in the absence of bread. I speak but the simple truth, when I say, I have often been so pinched with hunger, that I have fought with the dog—Old Nep—for the smallest crumbs that fell from the kitchen table, and have been glad when I won a single crumb in the combat.

意味（2）

(of a person or their face) Tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.

意味（3）

Financially hurt or damaged.

意味（4）

Compressed

If your sport makes you prone to violent neck motions, you are at risk for a pinched nerve. A pinched nerve occurs when a cervical disc ruptures, and the jellylike material from inside the disc presses on a nerve.