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📖 Определения и значения для слова pinch

📒 to take a piece of somebody’s skin and press it together hard with your thumb and the finger next to it

  • My sister's always pinching me and it really hurts.
  • He pinched the baby's cheek playfully.
  • (figurative) She had to pinch herself to make sure she was not dreaming.

📒 to hold something tightly between the thumb and finger or between two things that are pressed together

  • Pinch the nostrils together between your thumb and finger to stop the bleeding.
  • a pinched nerve in the neck
  • Apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils firmly together.

📒 to place the thumb and a finger of one hand on the screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone or small computer and move them together or apart, to make the image on the screen appear smaller or larger

  • You can pinch and zoom in.

📒 if something such as a shoe pinches part of your body, it hurts you because it is too tight

  • These new shoes pinch.
  • My shoes were pinching badly.

📒 to steal something, especially something small and not very valuable

  • Kids have been pinching our apples again.
  • Who's pinched my pen?

📒 to cost a person or an organization a lot of money or more than they can spend

  • Higher interest rates are already pinching the housing industry.

📒 to arrest somebody

  • I was pinched for dangerous driving.

📒 to try to spend as little money as possible

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