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UK
/pˈɪntʃ/
]
[ US /ˈpɪntʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪntʃ/ ]
NOUN
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a slight but appreciable amount
this dish could use a touch of garlic - an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
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the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar - a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
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a painful or straitened circumstance
the pinch of the recession -
a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
he never knew what to do in an emergency
VERB
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squeeze tightly between the fingers
She squeezed the bottle
He pinched her behind - make ridges into by pinching together
- make off with belongings of others
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cut the top off
top trees and bushes -
irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back
smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth
How To Use pinch In A Sentence
- Season with a pinch of salt and pepper. The Sun
- All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality. Erema — My Father's Sin
- I don't like swimming in the ocean that much either because the fact that all those fish have pinched a loave in there and it makes me a little squeezy. "It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings..."
- It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- You can stoke his silicon chest and pinch his squeezable bum - it may be the closest you ever get to doing it.
- Flossing your teeth daily (or, at a pinch, using a mouthwash) can make you 6.4 years younger.
- They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death.
- The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
- You said you checked for it, but it seems likely that the chain is being pinched between the jockey wheel and the cog.
- If you usually pinch back the dead flower heads, new ones will grow.