Synonyms for pinch
pɪntʃpinch

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pinchverb

   Synonyms:
   squeeze, grip, press, compress, nip, distress

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1. pinchnoun

   a painful or straitened circumstance

   "the pinch of the recession"

   Synonyms:
   speck, emergency, jot, apprehension, touch, catch, tinge, soupcon, taking into custody, arrest, mite, collar, tweak, hint, exigency

2. pinchnoun

   an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed

   Synonyms:
   speck, emergency, jot, apprehension, touch, catch, tinge, soupcon, taking into custody, arrest, mite, collar, tweak, hint, exigency

3. touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupconnoun

   a slight but appreciable amount

   "this dish could use a touch of garlic"

   Synonyms:
   hint, touch, touch sensation, signature, intimation, mite, jot, wind, spot, apprehension, corpuscle, sense of touch, exigency, cutaneous senses, suggestion, confidential information, lead, arrest, touch modality, tactile sensation, tinge, soupcon, ghost, speck, touching, particle, clue, taking into custody, steer, undertone, tactual sensation, skin senses, jotting, molecule, atom, pinpoint, collar, emergency, tweak, breath, feeling, contact, catch, trace, tip, mote

4. emergency, exigency, pinchnoun

   a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action

   "he never knew what to do in an emergency"

   Synonyms:
   jot, soupcon, touch, exigency, hand brake, tinge, tweak, catch, emergency brake, speck, hint, collar, mite, apprehension, taking into custody, arrest, emergency, parking brake

5. nip, pinchnoun

   a small sharp bite or snip

   Synonyms:
   jot, apprehension, chilliness, touch, flavour, exigency, collar, tinge, relish, tanginess, piquantness, zest, savour, flavor, piquance, soupcon, catch, smack, speck, hint, coolness, tweak, mite, emergency, piquancy, sapidity, taking into custody, arrest, tang, savor, shot

6. pinch, tweaknoun

   a squeeze with the fingers

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, jot, soupcon, touch, exigency, collar, tweak, catch, speck, hint, mite, tinge, taking into custody, arrest, emergency

7. apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custodyverb

   the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

   "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

   Synonyms:
   hitch, hint, touch, understanding, mite, jot, stoppage, apprehension, catch, halt, shoe collar, dog collar, snap, match, snatch, tinge, soupcon, exigency, speck, neckband, collar, taking into custody, leash, stop, discernment, misgiving, emergency, arrest, tweak, stay, apprehensiveness, dread, savvy, gimmick, grab, haul, choker, check

8. pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitchverb

   squeeze tightly between the fingers

   "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"

   Synonyms:
   cabbage, hook, pressure, nobble, thrust, clip, rack, sting, hale, filch, twitch, gouge, tweet, top, jerk, force, lift, shove, crimp, abstract, twinge, compress, hug, flip, pilfer, embrace, prick, purloin, snarf, compact, press, extort, stuff, squeeze, sneak, contract, squash, nip off, bosom, twirp, swipe, wring, mash, coerce, snip off, wedge, squelch, snip, constrict, crush, vellicate

9. crimp, pinchverb

   make ridges into by pinching together

   Synonyms:
   tweet, twitch, crape, filch, sneak, hook, snarf, kink up, frizz, frizzle, crimp, twinge, cabbage, nobble, squeeze, kink, lift, top, swipe, purloin, pilfer, vellicate, abstract

10. pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, liftverb

    make off with belongings of others

    Synonyms:
    elevate, snitch, rook, mouse, hook, top, victimize, nobble, uprise, arise, cop, cabbage, repeal, abstract, kidnap, vellicate, crimp, snarf, lift, con, vacate, defraud, hornswoggle, reverse, pussyfoot, go up, plagiarise, bring up, airlift, raise, rob, plume, revoke, pilfer, accost, overcharge, knock off, sneak, rise, abduct, move up, thieve, addict, crochet, filch, get up, squeeze, gyp, swindle, come up, creep, diddle, wind, pluck, swipe, solicit, countermand, bunco, twitch, rear, soak, rustle, hoist, short-change, goldbrick, snatch, purloin, scam, tweet, snare, face-lift, fleece, mulct, gip, plagiarize, gazump, surcharge, twinge, rescind, annul, slip, overturn, glom

11. top, pinchverb

    cut the top off

    "top trees and bushes"

    Synonyms:
    crown, twitch, cabbage, filch, sneak, hook, top off, exceed, swipe, snarf, purloin, vellicate, clear, crimp, twinge, tweet, nobble, overstep, top out, go past, squeeze, lead, transcend, pass, pilfer, top, lift, abstract

12. pinch, vellicateverb

    irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear

    "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"

    Synonyms:
    tweet, tickle, twitch, cabbage, filch, sneak, hook, snarf, purloin, top, crimp, twinge, nobble, titillate, squeeze, lift, vellicate, swipe, pilfer, abstract

Matched Categories

1. • Bite
   • Clip
   • Crisis
   • Difficulty
   • Fold
   • Injury
   • Prune
   • Small Indefinite Quantity
   • Squeeze
   • Steal

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pinchverb

   Synonyms:
   nip, squeeze, compress, gripe

2. pinchverb

   Synonyms:
   oppress, straiten, distress

3. pinchverb

   Synonyms:
   bear hard

4. pinchnoun

   Synonyms:
   nip, gripe

5. pinchnoun

   Synonyms:
   emergency, exigency, crisis, strait, difficulty, push

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1. pinchnoun

   Synonyms:
   twinge, tweak, twitch, exigency, strait

2. pinchverb

   Synonyms:
   squeeze, compress, twinge, tweak, gripe, nip, cramp, straiten, oppress, skrimp

3. pinchverb

   Synonyms:
   (Slang) arrest

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1. List of paraphrases for "pinch":

   mounting, mount, spire, contact, tighten, claw, dash, pincer, fixing, clamp

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How to use pinch in a sentence?

1. Robbie Williams:

   Something like this happens, and you pinch yourself, i'm pinching Robbie Williams again... And I just don't want to get too overwhelmed because I know how big the stage is.

2. Ralph Gonsalves:

   It’s a huge operation that is facing us, it’s going to be costly, but I don’t want us to penny pinch...this is going to be a long haul.

3. John Locke:

   Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

4. Matt Stajan:

   Things happen so quickly out there and even when I go home, I'll probably blink my eyes and still have to pinch myself to realize what happened, that's why we play the games. This is a special moment.

5. Horace:

   He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man?s door, Embittering all his state.