pinched

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of pinch

adj

1. Very thin, as if drawn together.
   His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark […] 1897, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Aaron Stark”, in Chilodren of the Night
   He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time. 2003, J. K. Rowling, chapter 1, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2. (of a person or their face) Tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
3. Financially hurt or damaged.
4. Compressed.
   If your sport makes you prone to violent neck motions, you are at risk for a pinched nerve. A pinched nerve occurs when a cervical disc ruptures, and the jellylike material from inside the disc presses on a nerve. 2010, Clifford D. Stark, Elizabeth Shimer Bowers, Living with Sports Injuries, page 40