Adjacent Words

lancinate definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

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

Moby Thesaurus

agonize, bloody, claw, convulse, crucify, excruciate, harrow, impale, kill by inches, lacerate, macerate, martyr, martyrize, punish, rack, rip, savage, scarify, torment, torture, wring