transitive. To pinch, wring, tweak, twitch. Also intransitive (quot. 1858). Obsolete exc. dialect.

transitive. To grip or compress (something) tightly and sharply; to nip, squeeze; spec. to grip or squeeze the skin of (a person or part of the body)…

transitive. To press tightly; to pinch.

transitive. To catch between two surfaces or points; to pinch, bite, squeeze sharply. Also figurative.

transitive. To nip.

As a rhyming synonym of pinch, v. transitive.

transitive to pinch severely.

transitive. To hold, grip, or compress with or as with pincers; †to torture or wring with or as with pincers (obsolete).

intransitive. To use tweezers; transitive to pull out with tweezers; also to pinch or pluck with or as with tweezers.