pinching

Pluralpinchings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of pinch. Use it after 'is', 'are' or 'was', or to name the action itself.

   My little brother keeps pinching my arm in the car.

   These new shoes are pinching my toes.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Squeezing you in a way that hurts, or feeling like that, as very cold air can.

   We walked to school in the pinching cold.

   My pinching new boots gave me blisters on both feet.

   Similarbiting, nipping, tight

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3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Squeezing something tightly between fingers or between two things.

   The baby's pinching left little red marks on my arm.

   Stop the pinching, both of you, or you'll lose your dessert!

   Similarsqueezing, nipping

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   Stealing, or one act of stealing.

   The shop owner was tired of all the pinching from the candy shelf.

   Petty pinching from the lockers got so bad that the school hired a guard.

   Similartheft, stealing, pilfering

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5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Removing the new growth of a plant by nipping it off with your fingers.

   Regular pinching keeps the basil plants from getting tall and thin.

   Grandma showed me how to do the pinching on her flower plants.

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