as in needle
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin
he hardly felt it when the nurse stuck the hypodermic in his arm
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Recent Examples of hypodermic
What is more confronting is that the central character is a girl of 13 who has just been forcibly tattooed by a classmate with a dirty hypodermic.
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Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2025
The syringes of those needles are in turn labelled, so that medical workers can keep track of which medications are in which hypodermics.
—New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2024
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Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2025
The syringes of those needles are in turn labelled, so that medical workers can keep track of which medications are in which hypodermics.
—New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypodermic
Noun
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Leaders don’t need to start with the most advanced capabilities to move the needle.—
Kamal Anand,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Fanatics Fest, which is partnering with English Premier League and FIFA for the first time this year, could help move the needle by increasing exposure for its investments into those properties.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Two were arrested in Metz when one was caught with a syringe and a woman who reported being stabbed recognized the second man.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
24 June 2025
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However, in Cambrai, a girl who had reported being pricked with a syringe actually had only been scratched in a crowd, La Voix du Nord reported.—
Liam Quinn,
People.com,
23 June 2025
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“Hypodermic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypodermic. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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