pinched (
http://definr.com/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"