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BARBED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Example:
setaceous whiskers
Synonyms:
barbed; barbellate; briary; briery; bristled; bristly; burred; burry; prickly; setaceous; setose; spiny; thorny
Classified under:
Similar:
armed ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of wounding
Example:
pungent satire
Synonyms:
barbed; biting; mordacious; nipping; pungent
Classified under:
Similar:
sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb barb
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