Verb

(es)

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

The children were scolded for pinching each other.

This shoe pinches my foot.

To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.

Someone has pinched my handkerchief!

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(slang) To arrest or capture.

(horticulture) To cut shoots]] or [[bud, buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

(nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

(hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

(obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.

(Gower)

* Franklin

the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.

* Chapman

He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

to be pinched for money

* Sir Walter Raleigh

want of room pinching a whole nation

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

Verb

(transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.

He snapped his stick in anger.

If you bend it too much, it will snap .

* Burke

But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it.

To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.

Blazing firewood snaps .

To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.

A dog snaps''' at a passenger. A fish '''snaps at the bait.

To attempt to seize with eagerness.

She snapped at the chance to appear on television.

To speak abruptly or sharply.

He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.

To give way abruptly and loudly.

To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.

She should take a break before she snaps .

To flash or appear to flash as with light.

To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.

(intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.

The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.

To snatch with or as if with the teeth.

* South

He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.

To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.

To say abruptly or sharply.

(dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up .

(Granville)

To cause something to emit a snapping sound.

to snap a fastener

to snap a whip

To close something using a snap as a fastener.

To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.

* Sir Walter Scott

MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly.

To cause to move suddenly and smartly.

To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).

He snapped a picture of me with my mouth open and my eyes closed.

(American football) To pass the ball from the center to a back; to hike the ball.

He can snap the ball to a back twenty yards behind him.

To misfire.

The gun snapped .