The difference between Pinch and Roust
When used as nouns, pinch means the action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt, whereas roust means a strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
When used as verbs, pinch means to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt, whereas roust means to rout out of bed.
check bellow for the other definitions of Pinch and Roust
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Pinch as a verb:
To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
Examples:
"The children were scolded for pinching each other."
"This shoe pinches my foot."
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Pinch as a verb:
To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
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Pinch as a verb:
To squeeze between two objects.
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Pinch as a verb:
To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
Examples:
"Someone has pinched my handkerchief!"
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Pinch as a verb (slang):
To arrest or capture.
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Pinch as a verb (horticulture):
To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
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Pinch as a verb (nautical):
To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
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Pinch as a verb (hunting):
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
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Pinch as a verb (obsolete):
To be niggardly or covetous.
Examples:
"rfquotek Gower"
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Pinch as a verb:
To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
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Pinch as a verb (figurative):
To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
Examples:
"to be pinched for money"
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Pinch as a verb:
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
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Pinch as a verb (obsolete):
To complain or find fault.
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Pinch as a noun:
The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
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Pinch as a noun:
A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
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Pinch as a noun:
An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
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Pinch as a noun:
An organic herbal smoke additive.
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Pinch as a noun (physics):
A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
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Pinch as a noun:
The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
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Pinch as a noun (slang):
An arrest.
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Roust as a verb (transitive):
to rout out of bed; to rouse
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Roust as a verb:
To harass, to treat in a rough way.
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Roust as a verb (transitive, slang):
to arrest
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Roust as a verb (transitive):
to drive strongly
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Roust as a noun:
A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
Examples:
"rfquotek Jamieson"