Synonyms of lancing

lancing

verb

present participle of lance

as in stabbing

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object

doctors used to lance infected sores, so that they could drain clean

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stabbing
• piercing
• puncturing
• jabbing
• picking
• sticking
• pecking
• spitting
• spearing
• impaling
• harpooning
• slicing
• skewering
• poking
• transfixing
• spiking
• goring
• punching
• pinking
• running through
• perforating
• pricking
• transpiercing
• riddling
• spindling
• thrusting
• bayoneting
• cutting
• knifing
• bayonetting
• quilling
• piking
• gimleting
• pronging
• dirking
• pinpricking
• poniarding