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Pricking

verb
/ˈpɹɪkɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.verbTo pierce or puncture slightly.
"John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood."
2.verbTo form by piercing or puncturing.
"to prick a pattern for embroidery"
3.verbTo mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
4.verbTo mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
5.verbTo run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
6.verbTo fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
"to prick a knife into a board"
7.verbTo be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
"A sore finger pricks."
8.verbTo make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
"The dog's ears pricked up at the sound of a whistle."
9.verbUsually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
10.verbTo incite, stimulate, goad.
11.verbTo urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
12.verbTo affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
13.verbTo make acidic or pungent.
14.verbTo become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
15.verbTo aim at a point or mark.
16.verbUsually as prick up: to dress or adorn; to prink.
17.nounThe act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
18.nounA sensation that pricks.
"the prickings of conscience"
19.nounThe driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
20.nounA nicking.
21.nounThe mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick.
22.nounThe act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
23.nounDressing oneself for show; prinking.

Synonyms

prick upslitpricklenotchgoadscratchshafttwingestingbitetoolpecker

Rhymes With

suckingfuckingpluckingbuckingcluckingslickingbloodsuckingdicking
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