pinch

Significado (Inglês)

1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
3. To squeeze between two objects.
4. Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
5. (slang) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
6. (slang) To arrest or capture.
7. To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
8. To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
9. To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
10. (obsolete) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
11. To seize; to grip; to bite.
12. To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
13. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
14. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.

nip

squeeze

too tight

press together

make narrow

little bit

small amount

nip off

strech

jerk away

snip off

taking into custody

hold tightly

pinch bar

be too tight

reduce to difficulties

blockage effect

be tight

cut to

cut away

use without permission

crow-bar

operate on

push against

slice up

snap off

help oneself to

suffer want

one piece

twist off

catch up with

tiny bit

make a dent

commit larceny

half inch

pincher trees

pinch back

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Pronunciado como (IPA)

/pɪnt͡ʃ/

From Middle English pinchen, from Old Northern French *pinchier (compare Old French pincier, pincer (“to pinch”)), a word of uncertain origin, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pinciāre (“to puncture, pinch”), from a merger of *punctiāre (“to puncture, sting”), from Latin punctiō (“a puncture, prick”) and *piccāre (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick”). More at point, pick and pitch.

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