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pin-pricked

pin-pricked adjective: having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.

Adjective

pin-pricked (comparative more pin-pricked, superlative most pin-pricked)

  1. Having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.
    • [B]ut Gillespie was too tough or insensitive to feel the lethal waves sent out from his pin-pricked image.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37

Forms of pin-pricked

comparativemore pin-pricked
superlativemost pin-pricked

Questions about pin-pricked

What does pin-pricked mean?
Pin-pricked means having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.
What part of speech is pin-pricked?
Pin-pricked is an adjective.

Words near pin-pricked in the dictionary

  1. pin-point
  2. pin-pointed
  3. pin-pointing
  4. pin-points
  5. pin-prick
  6. pin-pricked
  7. pin-pricks
  8. pin-setter
  9. pin-setters
  10. pin-sharp
  11. pin-stripe

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