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razor-wired

razor-wired adjective: surrounded with razor wire.

Adjective

razor-wired (not comparable)

  1. Surrounded with razor wire
    • Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text

Questions about razor-wired

What does razor-wired mean?
Razor-wired means surrounded with razor wire.
What part of speech is razor-wired?
Razor-wired is an adjective.

Words near razor-wired in the dictionary

  1. razor-blading
  2. razor-grinder
  3. razor-sharp
  4. razor-shell
  5. razor-thin
  6. razor-wired
  7. razorable
  8. razorback
  9. razorbacks
  10. razorbill
  11. razorbills

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