pinpricking

Verb

pinprick (third-person singular simple present pinpricks, present participle pinpricking, simple past and past participle pinpricked)

1. (transitive) To produce a jabbing sensation, like a pinprick, in.
   • The water pinpricked her face as she stepped into the shower.
2. (transitive) To puncture with a tiny hole or holes.
   • By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 144

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