Pinching is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PINCHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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.
• 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:
• the act of pinching
• an act of pinching someone
• an amount of an ingredient that can be held between fingers and thumb
• a critical point in the game.
ADJECTIVE:
• nipping
• Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to squeeze between two edges or surfaces

Words related to PINCHING

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How to use PINCHING in a sentence

• The eccentric, when in two pieces, is retained at its proper angle on the shaft by a pinching screw, which is provided with a jam nut to prevent it from working loose.
• Shade of my royal grandfathers! how long I could live in such pinching quarters was a question.
• Aunt Cynthia has a string of wonderful stories about Cowley Fathers biting Nestorian Bishops, and Athelstan Riley pinching Hensley Henson, and so forth.
• Among other things because it would repudiate the accursed worship of pinching self-restraint that was one of the incessant stresses between them.
• Several of those who examined her felt her flesh, pinching it gently between thumb and forefinger, a familiarity that the girl resented.
• By pinching off the points of the shoots when they have made five or six leaves a second crop of fruit will be obtained.
• So long as the modest Western Pacific dividends were forthcoming, they could live comfortably and without pinching.
• The little girl, without waiting to reflect, follows the impulse of her feelings, and seeks to punish her brother by pinching and pulling his ears.
• After this, the plants are permitted to run, and there is no more pinching or pruning until the crop is visible.
• It is not by rudely cutting out that crowding is to be prevented, but by timely pinching out every shoot that is likely to prove superfluous.
• In five or six weeks the first lot of tender shoots will be ready for pinching off.
• By judiciously pinching out the shoots, the plant can be equally spread over the allotted space.
• Stopping must be commenced early by pinching out the leader, and only one eye should be allowed beyond the fruit which are to remain.
• The first pair only of legs is shown with a pinching claw, possibly intended as a conventionalized hand, while the rest are simple.
• In such cases an effort is made to increase the tone by pinching the larynx.
• It was agreed that we should keep pinching one another to prevent our going to sleep.
• The pinching of these nerves naturally interferes with the supply of energy to the organs controlled by them, and causes more or less serious derangement of the bodily functions.
• He received me with a grotesque bow, pinching the brim of his wide straw hat as he bobbed his head.
• Even a very tight glove or a pinching shoe may suffice to hamper the action of the muscles required for singing or speaking.
• Silly gardener! summer goes, And winter comes with pinching toes, When in the garden bare and brown You must lay your barrow down.
• The good man Grangousier took great pleasure in their company, and commanded there should be no want nor pinching for anything.
• I showed them where I had a case against Sammy for pinching the plate that was strong enough to put a hundred innocent men behind the bars.
• Like everything else in this world picture pinching from still life depends entirely on the point of view.
• It was a rather poor house, an unpainted frame in a poor street, but there was never a lack of gayety or, for that matter, any pinching lack of funds.
• How commerce flagged September through, at 90, Pinching Lane, Till bronzed and bluff the chief returned, and trade revived again.
• It was of a Sunday in the evening, the people of Lyons, who had been sorely oppressed in taxes, and the war in Italy pinching their trade, began to be very tumultuous.
• She was pale, indeed, but there was no ugly pinching of her face, and if there were shadows beneath her eyes, they only served to make her eyes seem marvelously large and bright.

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