New American Oxford Dictionary
pinched
pinched |pinCHt pɪntʃt | ▶adjective 1 (of a person or their face ) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger. 2 hurt by financial hardship: consumers feel pinched by rising costs in repairs and housing.
Oxford Dictionary
pinched
pinched |pɪntʃt | ▶adjective 1 tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger: her pinched, sallow face. 2 suffering from financial hardship.
American Oxford Thesaurus
pinched
pinched adjective their pinched faces: strained, stressed, fraught, tense, taut; tired, worn, drained, sapped; wan, peaked, pale, gray, blanched; thin, drawn, haggard, gaunt. ANTONYMS healthy.
Oxford Thesaurus
pinched
pinched adjective their pale, pinched faces, dulled with years of lost endeavour: strained, stressed, fraught, tense, taut, tired, worn, drained, sapped; wan, peaky, pale, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, colourless, anaemic, washed out, ashen, ashen-faced, grey, blanched; thin, drawn, haggard, gaunt, wizened, cadaverous, hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed, emaciated. ANTONYMS healthy, glowing, chubby.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
pinched
pinched /-t /形容詞 1 (病気 疲労などで )やつれた, 不健康な ; 苦しんで, 困って ▸ His face looks pinched .彼の顔はやつれて見える 2 〖be ~〗 «…がなくて » 困り果てて «for » .