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Adjective
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(of pain) Sharp and intense in nature
sharp
acute
shooting
stinging
throbbing
biting
piercing
pounding
prickly
severe
smarting
tender
tingling
twingeing
achy
excruciating
gnawing
hurting
intense
painful
inflamed
raw
agonizingUS
exquisite
searing
violent
extreme
racking
agonisingUK
harrowing
more ❯
“When June felt stabbing pains in her heart, she associated it with both myself and her mother.”
Adjective
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Sharp, stabbing or piercing
lancinating
honed
edged
jagged
pointed
keen
cuspidate
peaked
sharpened
whetted
acute
serrated
acuate
aciculate
acuminate
acuminous
apical
barbed
briery
cuspate
fine
horned
needlelike
piercing
spiked
unblunted
tipped
pointy
knifelike
pronged
gnawing
prickly
salient
shooting
spiky
spiny
splintery
stinging
tapered
tapering
thorny
tined
knife-edged
keen-edged
needle-pointed
razor-sharp
sharp-edged
ground fine
sharp
spired
stropped
cutting
bristly
trenchant
edgy
acicular
brambly
razor-edged
knife-like
razor-like
piked
hobnailed
ground
sawtooth
sawtoothed
razor
needle-shaped
acute-angled
fine-edged
spear-like
needle-like
sharp-cornered
spear-shaped
hooked
wedge-shaped
mucronate
V-shaped
conic
cone-shaped
conical
subulate
lanceolate
conoid
cusped
aculeate
sagittate
cornered
sagittal
arrowlike
spearlike
briary
toothed
bristled
spined
scratchy
notched
snaggy
spinous
spinose
Adjective
▲
Bitterly hostile or malicious
virulent
malevolent
malicious
vicious
spiteful
bitter
vindictive
hostile
malignant
resentful
acrimonious
malign
rancorous
venomous
vitriolic
cutting
mean
nasty
scathing
astringent
biting
blistering
catty
caustic
harsh
incisive
mordant
stinging
abusive
aggressive
cruel
despiteful
hateful
savage
searing
withering
bad
devastating
envenomed
malefic
maleficent
splenetic
antagonistic
fierce
sharp
unfriendly
vituperative
evil-intentioned
more ❯
Noun
▲
An act or instance of wounding or killing someone with a knife
spearing
impalation
impalement
impaling
lancing
jabbing
skewering
slashing
bayonetting
goring
knife attack
“The officer who claimed to have been the victim of an attempted stabbing.”
Noun
▲
The action or process of penetrating something
penetration
piercing
perforation
puncturing
puncture
riddling
entrance
entry
goring
impalement
impaling
prick
pricking
probing
spiking
sticking
transfixing
boring
drilling
incision
invasion
lancing
tapping
transfixion
access
breach
dispersion
dissemination
forcing
incursion
infringement
ingress
insertion
osmosis
permeation
punching
saturation
thrusting
admission
admittance
entrée
passage
accession
entree
progress
permission to enter
opportunity to enter
right of entry
Noun
▲
A continuous or prolonged dull pain in a part of one's body
ache
pain
pang
twinge
cramp
smart
smarting
spasm
throb
discomfort
sting
hurt
irritation
soreness
suffering
tenderness
throe
convulsion
gnawing
pounding
prick
shoot
stinging
stitch
throbbing
tingle
dull pain
aching
backache
headache
muscular spasm
niggle
stomachache
more ❯
Noun
▲
A deep cut or tear in skin or flesh
laceration
cutting
gashing
maiming
mangling
mutilation
ripping
slashing
tearing
cleaving
grazing
hacking
incision
mauling
scraping
scratching
splitting
butchery
cutting open
damaging
injury
savaging
wounding
tearing apart
Noun
▲
The killing of one person by another
homicide
murder
killing
slaying
assassination
manslaughter
butchery
extermination
liquidation
slaughter
blood
execution
fratricide
massacre
matricide
parricide
patricide
rubout
sororicide
bloodshed
filicide
infanticide
regicide
uxoricide
bump-off
carnage
crime
death
erase
foul play
hit
offing
ride
shooting
big chill
first-degree murder
second-degree murder
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for puncture, pierce with sharp, pointed object
goring
sticking
piercing
spearing
puncturing
cutting
knifing
transfixing
bayoneting
bayonetting
impaling
injuring
running through
skewering
spiking
jabbing
wounding
penetrating
pricking
transpiercing
gashing
harpooning
lancing
pecking
perforating
picking
pinking
slashing
spitting
thrusting
scratching
tearing
branding
carving
chopping
cleaving
driving
gouging
hurting
jagging
ploughingUK
plowingUS
plunging
pronging
punching
ramming
sabering
shanking
sinking
slicing
opening up
more ❯
“Last Friday he managed to get into the hospital kitchens, where he grabbed a knife and threatened to stab members of staff.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for make a thrusting gesture or movement at something with a pointed object
jabbing
lunging
lungeing
poking
prodding
thrusting
digging
pushing
shoving
sticking
driving
ramming
punching
sinking
nudging
plunging
butting
spurring
goading
jogging
gouging
knocking
banging
jolting
pricking
running
propelling
drumming
beating
forcing
more ❯
“The cowboy stabs sideways with his finger, indicating he's turning off just up the road.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to take violent or aggressive action against
attacking
assaulting
assailing
hitting
hurting
ambushing
beating
mugging
aggressing
battering
harming
beaning
kicking
overwhelming
siccing
booting
clocking
pummellingUK
pummeling
besieging
bothering
clipping
jumping
braining
larruping
larrupping
slogging
striking
bopping
pasting
trashing
biffing
busting
harassing
wallopping
walloping
besetting
boffing
bushwhacking
thrashing
batting
blistering
cooking
punching
clubbing
pounding
whopping
assaulting physically
beating up
chopping down
descending on
descending upon
doing over
falling upon
jumping on
knocking about
knocking around
knocking cold
lacing to
laying into
lighting to
pitching into
pouncing on
pouncing upon
roughing up
sailing into
setting about
setting on
setting upon
striking at
tearing into
turning on
working over
beating up on
duffing someone up
getting stuck into
going in on
knocking block off
lashing out at
laying siege to
letting fly at
turning to violence
having a go at
knocking for a loop
letting someone have it
beating the living daylights out of
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause pain or distress to
wringing
harrowing
lacerating
piercing
racking
rending
wounding
distressing
hurting
paining
tormenting
torturing
tearing at
afflicting
troubling
harassing
plaguing
worrying
oppressing
disturbing
perturbing
touching
moving
grieving
cutting
preying on
pricking
causing someone distress
gnawing at
causing anguish
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to kill or cause the death of
knocking off
assassinating
dispatching
executing
icing
liquidating
murdering
offing
slaying
whacking
bumping off
croaking
doing in
getting
neutralisingUK
neutralizingUS
rubbing out
snuffing
terminating
chilling
chillin
dusting
eliminating
finishing
greasing
hitting
killing
putting away
shooting
taking out
topping
wasting
waxing
zapping
blowing away
disposing of
snuffing out
stretching out
doing away with
Verb
▲
Present participle for to do something despite the danger it may pose
risking
chancing
gambling
venturing
wagering
plunging
staking
Verb
▲
Present participle for to spread or pervade throughout
permeating
pervading
filling
charging
infiltrating
imbuing
penetrating
suffusing
impregnating
saturating
interpenetrating
passing through
perfusing
riddling
steeping
transfusing
diffusing through
informing
percolating
spreading through
diffusing
drenching
entering
extending throughout
filtering
filtering through
flooding
flowing through
infusing
ingraining
interfusing
invading
leaking
passing
percolating into
percolating through
piercing
seeping
soaking
stalking
running through
seeping through
soaking through
diffusing throughout
going through
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cover completely with water
submersing
deluging
drowning
engulfing
flooding
inundating
overflowing
overwhelming
submerging
swamping
boring
capsizing
couching
declining
demitting
depressing
descending
digging
disappearing
drilling
driving
drooping
dropping
ebbing
excavating
falling
floundering
foundering
laying
lowering
overturning
plummeting
plummetting
plunging
ramming
regressing
running
sagging
scuttling
setting
settling
shipwrecking
sloping
slumping
sticking
stooping
subsiding
thrusting
wrecking
bringing down
casting down
caving in
forcing down
going down
letting down
putting down
tipping over
touching bottom
going to the bottom
Verb
▲
Present participle for to elevate or extend in an upward direction or motion
thrusting
ascending
arising
climbing
extending
jutting
lifting
rising
soaring
uprising
upthrusting
aspiring
mounting
reaching
uprearing
stretching
upping
upturning
darting
reaching out
stretching out
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause damage to
damaging
harming
injuring
marring
spoiling
ruining
defacing
hurting
impairing
blemishing
devastating
disfiguring
mutilating
wrecking
crippling
vitiating
blighting
crushing
defiling
mangling
smashing
demolishing
desecrating
gutting
shattering
trashing
undoing
vandalisingUK
vandalizingUS
weakening
annihilating
bloodying
breaking
compromising
crabbing
destroying
disrupting
endamaging
flawing
ravaging
sabotaging
staining
tainting
tarnishing
totalling
totaling
wounding
blotting
disfeaturing
incapacitating
razing
smirching
sullying
abusing
battering
burning
corrupting
cracking
denting
dirtying
discolouringUK
discoloringUS
disintegrating
dismantling
gnawing
infecting
knocking
lacerating
maiming
maltreating
rotting
rusting
scathing
scorching
scratching
splitting
tearing
undermining
wronging
bleaching
contaminating
corroding
crossing up
fading
polluting
banging up
causing injury
smashing up
tampering with
wearing away
doing damage to
playing havoc with
wreaking havoc on
playing merry hell with
driving a nail into the coffin of
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