SCRIMPED Synonyms

• sounding as if the nose were pinched

• very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• as if squeezed uncomfortably tight

• distributed equitably in limited individual portions

• rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin

• guarded from injury or destruction

• use cautiously and frugally

• spend sparingly, avoid the waste of

• a secret store of valuables or money

• save up as for future use

• get or gather together

• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

• limit in quality or quantity

• subsist on a meager allowance

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

• an extra component of a machine or other apparatus

• an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle

• a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls

• thin and fit

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• not taken up by scheduled activities

• kept in reserve especially for emergency use

• lacking in magnitude or quantity

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• refrain from harming

• save or relieve from an experience or action

• give up what is not strictly needed

• use frugally or carefully

• the act of gripping and pressing firmly

• a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high

• a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer

• (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend

• a twisting squeeze

• an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power

• a tight or amorous embrace

• the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• press firmly

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• press or force

• squeeze tightly between the fingers

• hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

• squeeze or press together

• an unbroken period of time during which you do something

• smallest American sandpiper

• an individual's prescribed share of work

• subsist on a meager allowance

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

• a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

• (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

• a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

• enter into a contractual arrangement

• engage by written agreement

• squeeze or press together

• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• become smaller or draw together

• make smaller

• compress or concentrate

• make or become more narrow or restricted

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

• limit in quality or quantity

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

• make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• make short or shorter

• become short or shorter

• edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

• limit in quality or quantity

• subsist on a meager allowance

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

• an unbroken period of time during which you do something

• smallest American sandpiper

• an individual's prescribed share of work

• subsist on a meager allowance

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities