'Lancinate' definitions:
Definition of 'lancinate'
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Lancinate'
- Lancinate \Lan"ci*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lancinated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Lancinating.] [L. lancinatus, p. p. of
lancinare to fear.]
To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. --De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
- agonize,
- bloody,
- claw,
- convulse,
- crucify,
- excruciate,
- harrow,
- impale,
- kill by inches,
- lacerate,
- macerate,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- punish,
- rack,
- rip,
- savage,
- scarify,
- torment,
- torture,
- wring
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