pinch
Because it is a word with a single syllable, pinch is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofpinch
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
Example: "I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture."
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An arrest.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
Example: "The children were scolded for pinching each other."
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- To steal, usually something inconsequential.
Example: "Someone has pinched my handkerchief!"
- To arrest or capture.
- To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
- To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
- To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
Example: "to be pinched for money"
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- To complain or find fault.
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