Pinch is valid Scrabble Word

Is pinch a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pinch valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for PINCH in dictionary:

VERB:

to squeeze between two surfaces
use the fingers to remove (buds or leaves) from a plant to encourage bushy growth
(of a shoe) hurt (a foot) by being too tight
steal or take without permission
arrest (someone)
live in a frugal way
sail (a boat) so close to the wind that the sails begin to lose power.
squeeze between finger and thumb
To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

To plait.
Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
squeeze tightly between the fingers
make ridges into by pinching together
make off with belongings of others
cut the top off
irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb
compress (one's lips), especially from worry or tension
move one's finger and thumb apart or bring them together on (a touchscreen) in order to zoom into or out of an image, activate a function, etc.

NOUN:

an act of pinching someone
an amount of an ingredient that can be held between fingers and thumb
a critical point in the game.
A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
Pian; pang.
A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
a painful or straitened circumstance
an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
a slight but appreciable amount
a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
a small sharp bite or snip
a squeeze with the fingers
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
act of pinching

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to squeeze between two edges or surfaces

Words related to PINCH

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Words that contain PINCH

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How to use PINCH in a sentence

Then mix some cold boiled rice with 1 egg, a pinch of salt, sugar and cinnamon, flour enough to make a dough.
I should have known that I was too old and sober for a young thing like that, for the life she led before the pinch came just suited her.
Wash rice and put on with cold water to barely cover, and pinch salt.
I eased my horse a little going up Flea Creek pinch, but with this delay reached my destination in half an hour, and sent the men galloping in the direction of the fire.
Pinch them back so as to produce a bushy growth, and give support to the heavy heads of bloom.
But such muttered confidences are eloquent of mischief when the pinch comes.
Taking the box from his girdle, he helped himself to a pinch of snuff and offered it to the Vizier, who followed his example.
The satisfied manner in which she drew up chairs before the fire, took a pinch of snuff and settled her skirts, indicated that was going to be quite a session.
But one of them had lost one eye in the fight, and so we seized him and made off, leaving the other to snap his tongs together in anger because he had nobody to pinch.
A pinch of the powdered herb will provoke violent sneezing.

A pinch of pearl ash put into boiling peas will render old yellow ones, quite tender and green.
Add three pints of stock, one pint of cream, five ounces of mushrooms, a small sprinkling of dried herbs, one half teaspoonful of salt and a pinch of white pepper.
Pinch the edges of the dough well together, let the loaf rise till very light, then bake.
SWEET OMELET FOR ONE One egg, beat white separately, two tablespoons of cold sweet milk, a pinch of salt.
At a pinch we can very well be every man his own poet.
Those are duelling pistols, Sol, but they can be made mighty useful, too, for our defense in case of a pinch.
No longer was the pinch of death in her countenance.
He decided that a dead tree lying across the river would, at a pinch, serve for a bridge, and he ventured upon it.
He paused, with a pinch between finger and thumb, to nod back to me.

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