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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
pinched
1. sounding as if the nose were pinched (Freq. 1)
- a whining nasal voice
• Syn:
adenoidal, nasal
• Similar to:
high, high-pitched
• Derivationally related forms:
nasal (for: nasal), nasality (for: nasal)
2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold (Freq. 1)
- emaciated bony hands
- a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
- eyes were haggard and cavernous
- small pinched faces
- kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
• Syn:
bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard,
skeletal, wasted
• Similar to:
thin, lean
• Derivationally related forms:
gauntness (for: gaunt), boniness (for: bony), bonyness (for: bony)
3. not having enough money to pay for necessities
• Syn:
hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious
• Similar to:
poor
• Derivationally related forms:
penury (for: penurious), penuriousness (for: penurious), pennilessness (for: penniless), impecuniousness (for: impecunious)
4. as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
- her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her
• Similar to:
constricted
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