3 definitions found for lancinate

lancinate adj 1: painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain" [syn: cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating]

lancinate v. a. Tear, rend, sever, mangle, lacerate, laniate, claw, tear to pieces.

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "lancinate": agonize, bloody, claw, convulse, crucify, excruciate, harrow, impale, kill by inches, lacerate, macerate, martyr, martyrize, punish, rack, rip, savage, scarify, torment, torture, wring