pinch
verb (used with object)
to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
unpinched
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a word derived from
pinch.
Example Sentences
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I turned my back and the moment I unpinched my nose the blood gushed out like a busted pipe and spattered all down my jeans and over my sneakers.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
His Normans and Poictevins were over-ripe; he as dry as an unpinched pear.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
It thus follows that the unpinched shoot stood, on Jan. 26th, 56o above the horizon, or 34o from the vertical; and it was thus obviously almost ready to replace the slowly growing, pinched, leading shoot.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
