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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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