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pinched out

pinched out is the simple past and past participle of pinch out.

Meaning of pinch out

Verb

pinch out (third-person singular simple present pinches out, present participle pinching out, simple past and past participle pinched out)

  1. the leading shoot in order to encourage a bushy habit
  2. a plant's side shoots
  3. For a distinct body of rock between underlying and overlying strata, to thin out and come to an end, so that the strata above come to lie on the strata below.

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Questions about pinched out

What is pinched out the simple past and past participle of?
Pinched out is the simple past and past participle of pinch out.

Words near pinched out in the dictionary

  1. pinched
  2. pinched a loaf
  3. pinched at
  4. pinched off
  5. pinched one off
  6. pinched out
  7. pinchedly
  8. pinchedness
  9. Pinchefsky
  10. pincher
  11. Pincher Creek

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinched out (page history and authors); pinch out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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