pinched

adj 1: sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal

voice" [syn: {adenoidal}, {nasal}]

2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

"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}]

3: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: {hard

up}, {impecunious}, {in straitened circumstances(p)}, {penniless},

{penurious}]

4: as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her

pointed shoes were killing her"