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[ bahrbd ] / bɑrbd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR barbed ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehaving barbs. calculated to wound; cutting: a professor noted for his barbed criticisms. Origin of barbedFirst recorded in 1520–30; barb1 + -ed3 Words nearby barbedbarb bolt, barbe, barbecue, barbecue sauce, barbecue stopper, barbed, barbed tributary, barbed wire, barbed-wire grass, barbel, barbell Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for barbedSo perhaps the barbed wire and the machinations of the plot did duty for other obstacles that stood between myself and freedom. The Stacks: How The Berlin Wall Inspired John le Carré’s First Masterpiece|John le Carré|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Click here to see a photo of Galbraith and Fairchild posing in front of barbed wire that marked off mines in the zone. Morgan Fairchild: Badass Foreign Policy Wonk|Asawin Suebsaeng|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Two parallel fences tipped with barbed wire formed a narrow corridor into the gymnasium. The GOP’s Last Identity Crisis Remade U.S. Politics|Michael Wolraich|July 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Even after she left its barbed bosom, it did its best to further excommunicate and sideline her. If Kate Middleton’s Butt Could Speak: It’s Time Royal Princesses Led Visible, Voluble Public Lives|Tim Teeman|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These days, the vast majority of coalition forces work within the walls, guard towers, and barbed wire of their bases. How I’ll End the War: Making Collage Art With Afghan Students|Nick Willard|May 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST By the discharge of the mortar a barbed shot was to be flung on to the wreck, with a line attached to the shot. Cornish Characters|S. Baring-Gould For the story of this village of Voyennes is just that of all the villages on the enemy's side of the barbed wire. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917|Philip Gibbs The boy by some instinct dodged swiftly, and the barbed dart whistled by his ear and sank into the woodwork of the deck-house. The Bungalow Boys Along the Yukon|Dexter J. Forrester By-spines (one hundred and fifty to two hundred) very thin, barbed and zigzag, as long as the radius. Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)|Ernst Haeckel A wilderness of tangled underbrush, like barbed wire entanglements, baffled the hardiest adventurer. Tom Slade's Double Dare|Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Words related to barbedbiting, pointed, stinging, spiked, piercing, wounding, hurtful, sharp |