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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1. 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.

2. Kamala Harris:

   I will be a fighter for the next generation on the critical issues facing our country, i will be a fighter for middle-class families who are feeling the pinch of stagnant wages and diminishing opportunity.

3. William Cowper:

   He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the want that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.

4. Neil Mellor:

   I try to take all the toing and froing with a pinch of salt, i'm inclined to believe they will make an agreement, maybe not on the day, and find money down the back of the sofa in the meantime.

5. Kevin Gallagher:

   The windfall for commodity prices over the last commodity boom was the biggest recorded in history, but the marginal savings rate was lower than in past booms, the South American resource countries are facing a real pinch.