English-German translations for pinch

• kneifen das
  Doch insbesondere als unser Ausschuss sich mit dem Prince-Programm befasste, mussten wir uns kneifen, um uns zu vergewissern, dass wir die Zahlen vor unseren Augen auch richtig verstanden. It was, however, when we came to the Prince programme in particular that the Committee on Constitutional Affairs had to pinch itself to see if it had really understood the figures before its eyes.
• klauen
• zwicken
• Angst die
• darben
• erwischen
• Gewissensbiss
• Klemme die
• Kniff der
• Messerspitze die
• mopsen
• Obst klauen
• petzen
• Prise die
• Quäntchen das
• schnappen
• sich etwas unter den Nagel reißen
• stehlen
• striezen
• zusammenkneifen

Definition of pinch

• To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt
• To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger
• To squeeze between two objects
• To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential
• To arrest or capture
• To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter
• 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
• To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch
• The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt
• A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip
• A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc
• A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament
• An arrest

Examples

• The children were scolded for pinching each other.
• This shoe pinches my foot.
• Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
• to be pinched for money
• I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.

Related words

• pincher
• pinchpenny
• penny-pinching
• pinching
• pinched
• pinchbeck
• penny-pincher
• pinchy
• Affenpincher