pinched

Adjective

• as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
  • her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her
    

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• 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
    

• sounding as if the nose were pinched
  • a whining nasal voice
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hard up , impecunious , in straitened circumstances(p) , penniless , penurious , bony , cadaverous , emaciated , gaunt , haggard , skeletal , wasted , adenoidal , nasal