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lanced

verb , past tense of lance

Synonyms and Antonyms of lanced

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object

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

Synonyms of lanced

gored, harpooned, impaled, jabbed, pecked, picked, pierced, pinked, punctured, ran through, skewered, speared, spiked, spitted, stabbed, stuck, transfixed, transpierced

Words Related to lanced

perforated, riddled

bayoneted (also bayonetted), dirked, gimleted, piked, poniarded, pronged, quilled

pinpricked, poked, pricked, punched, thrust

cut, knifed, sliced

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