Pinches Synonyms and Antonyms

To take into custody as a prisoner
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. arrests
  2. holds
  3. collars
  4. busts
  5. nabs
  6. detains
  7. seizes
  8. apprehends
Antonyms:
  1. frees
  2. releases
Cut the top off
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. skimps
  2. robs
  3. top
  4. scrimps
  5. filches
  6. takes
  7. scrapes
Antonyms:
  1. receives
  2. offers
  3. gives
A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. exigencies
  2. twitches
  3. collars
  4. twinges
  5. catches
  6. straits
  7. predicaments
  8. arrests
  9. junctures
  10. emergencies
  11. apprehensions
  12. impingements
Make ridges into by pinching together
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. crimps
To take (money or property) wrongfully.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. steals

Pinches Sentence Examples

  • See further, Pinches, Old Test.

  • Heavy pinches are applied at first, the space between the rolls being diminished by a hand-screw of ter each passage of the bars through them.

  • But all attempts to harmonize the scheme of dynasties thus ascribed to Berossus with the list given us in the so-called dynastic Tablets discovered by Dr Pinches have been failures.

  • Pinches, which gave a synopsis of Babylonian history from a Babylonian point of view, and was compiled in the reign of Darius.

  • Pinches has pointed out' that Shumer may be a dialectic form of an as yet unestablished non-Semitic form, Shenger, just as the non-Semitic word dimmer, " god," is equivalent to another form, dingir.

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