PRICKING Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in stinging

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verb

present participle of prick

as in prickling

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Adjective

The researchers' device aims to solve the stinging problem by physically preventing this meeting (unfortunately no images of it are available at this time).

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 June 2026
Since September of 2024, federal science agencies in the US have axed nearly 120,000 employees, in a stinging loss for public research.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 25 June 2026

Definition of stinging

Adjective

Dickerson was the first physician to treat Mike Studeny, who was diagnosed with a non-bleeding stroke.

— Christa Swanson, CBS News, 9 May 2026
In tests using mice, after surgical damage to the liver, AGCL was able to perform significantly better than other current anti-bleeding agents, with normal liver function returning just two weeks after its application.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of bleeding

Verb

Instead, her dad looks under the table and sees a jumble of limbs with Chastain’s smiling face poking out at him.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 21 July 2026
This included one of their players poking a finger into the ear of the Belgian penalty-spot protector Diego Moreira, and responding to the reactionary elbow to the tummy by going down, and staying down, on top of the penalty mark.

— Geir Jordet, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of poking

Adjective

In Jenny Offill’s Weather, climate change intrudes on its narrator’s mundane day-to-day thoughts, a nagging anxiety that never quite boils over.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
But there remains a nagging doubt, only strengthened by his absence from training on Thursday.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 July 2026

Definition of nagging

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As the spacecraft closed in, the video follows Mars steadily expanding to reveal numerous craters puncturing its surface, the ancient double-ringed Huygens crater and the south polar ice cap before receding in the spacecraft's rearview.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 22 July 2026
On June 3, Walden went to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed the metal bristle had become lodged in his bowel and had begun puncturing his intestine.

— Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 30 June 2026

Definition of puncturing

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Prosecutors said some of the money was used for recruiting new members and purchasing Ku Klux Klan robes and materials for cross-burning ceremonies.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2026
In the case of the cross-burning incident, there is no comparison to the Jussie Smollett case.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026

Definition of burning

Verb

The experience was one that had Dawkins itching to get into his own vehicle.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026
These new voices energized voters itching for change and convinced that congressional Republicans were not fighting President Barack Obama hard enough.

— David M. Drucker, Mercury News, 15 July 2026

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