piercing English

Meaning piercing meaning

What does piercing mean?

Definitions in simple English

piercing Noun

— A piercing is a hole in the body that is made so jewellery can be put through it. She got an ear piercing after her birthday.

— A piercing is a piece of jewellery that is put into a piercing. The woman had several face and body piercings.

piercing Adjective

— A piercing look or sound is one that feels like it goes right through you because it is very intense. The man had a piercing gaze. The woman let out a piercing shriek after seeing the body.

piercing

— adjective (= cutting, keen, knifelike, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument a cutting wind keen winds knifelike cold piercing knifelike pains piercing cold piercing criticism a stabbing pain lancinating pain

— adjective (= acute, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions an acute observer of politics and politicians incisive comments icy knifelike reasoning as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang penetrating insight frequent penetrative observations

Synonyms piercing synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as piercing?

piercing English » English

penetrating

shrill

sharp

keen

perforating

stabbing

perforation

cutting

boring

acute

biting

stinging

pungent

penetrative

knifelike

penetration

lancinating

incisive

trenchant

strident

splitting

smart

screeching

puncture

punching

pricking

pointed

pervasive

permeative

perceptive

lancinate

high-pitched

harsh

fulgurating

drilling

discriminating

wounding

wild

whistling

twanging

touching

tearing asunder

tearing

tart

tapping

tangy

strong

stroke

stiff

sticking out

Topics piercing topics

What do people use piercing to talk about?

Person Sense, perceive Hear

Loud

• What words describe a sound that is loud and high?
  piercing penetrating ear-splitting

Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain

• What words refer to a pain that lasts a short time?
  attack sharp pang piercing prick shooting stab stabbing throes paroxysm wrenching pain

Language and thought Communication Say

Voice

• What words describe a sound or voice that is high on the musical scale?
  high high-pitched piercing shrill squeaky tinny

Examples piercing examples

How do I use piercing in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom has a piercing voice.

It's a type of body piercing.

Tom has piercing blue eyes.

His belly button piercing was healing.

Movie subtitles

The one with the arrow piercing the heart and dripping blood?

A piercing scream.

Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs piercing the night's dull ear.

In the 2000 centuries since that unexplained catastrophe..even their cloud-piercing towers of- - Of glass..and porcelain and adamantine steel..have crumbled back into the soil of Altair-4, and nothing.

Even to the piercing eye of radar and the speeding jet fighters.

You have piercing eyes, Commissar!

Say she be mute and will not speak a word, Then I'll commend her volubility, And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.

Golden thorn. Who could feel you piercing the heart?

Pierced ears and piercing eyes.

Armour-piercing fire!

Your theory about the aliens piercing our defences screen doesn't hold up.

You need something to occupy that piercing mind of yours.

Fat, greasy, curly hair, small cruel eyes piercing through dark glasses.

Walking with their hands on the hood, guiding the car's path, with a piercing gaze!

Piercing gaze. Deerstalker cap.

In the 2000 centuries since that unexplained catastrophe even their cloud-piercing towers of. Of glass and porcelain and adamantine steel have crumbled back into the soil of Altair-4, and nothing absolutely nothing, remains above ground.

It's true, your eyes are piercing my heart.

Bits and pieces of the universe, piercing our atmosphere in an invasion that never ends.

Herman has a very distinguished lantern jaw. and piercing eyes. And, um, a classic nose. Oh, and an overhanging forehead.

Lantern jaw, piercing eyes, classic nose.

Flat on top, lantern jaw, long on sides, piercing eyes, classic nose.

This plant will produce a new high-velocity, armor-piercing shell.

The next day, I found myself back again on the sleazy cabaret stage but I was worried, tormented, and I had every reason to be since for the first minute of my strip, and like every other night I found Cynthia's eyes piercing me.

Like a thorn piercing my brain.

And the night before August 23, the night of the suicide, lumberjacks heard piercing screams from the lake.

My song once again laments. Golden thorn. Who could feel you piercing the heart?

With armour-piercing, at the tanks, sight 12. Fire!

And you there, with your big pins. Seeing both of you piercing them, one by one. horrible!

Dark eyes. Piercing eyes.

The power of piercing eyes. straight at the heart is aimed.

It's piercing the sky.

As a matter of interest, we've already used the idea in England for armor-piercing shells.

Armor-piercing bullets?

News and current affairs

And the minaret, piercing the sky like a missile, is easily caricatured as a fearsome image.