(imp. & p. p.) of Pinch.

attenuated badly off cadaverous careworn clamped compressed concentrated condensed consolidated constricted contracted corpselike cramped desperate distressed down to bedrock drawn emacerated emaciate emaciated embarrassed feeling the pinch haggard hard pressed hard up hollow-eyed ill off impecunious in Queer Street in desperate straits in extremis in extremities in narrow circumstances in reduced circumstances in straitened circumstances jejune knitted land-poor marantic marasmic narrow nipped on the edge out of pocket peaked peaky pinched-in poor poorly off puckered puny pursed reduced short short of cash short of funds short of money shriveled skeletal solidified sorely pressed squeezed starved starveling straitened strangled strangulated strapped tabetic tabid underfed undernourished unmoneyed unprosperous up against it wasp-waisted wasted weazeny withered wizened worn wraithlike wrinkled