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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That's the only way to know whether your marketing is really moving the needle or just riding the wave.—
Liam Wade,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Whether his stock trading will indeed move the needle in 2026, however, remains to be seen.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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From January to May, Amanda Woodard would use a syringe to take the remaining fentanyl out of the vials, according to a probable cause statement.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
30 July 2025
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In the role of a comically unhinged doctor from the World Health Organization, Nadia Pillay wields an oversized syringe and scatters a barrage of pharmaceutical samples at the bewildered children.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
24 July 2025
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“Hypodermic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypodermic. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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