EGAVE

barbed

About 1.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having barbs.
  2. adjective Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared. Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled. Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).
  3. adjective Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
  4. adjective Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.
  5. adjective Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).
  6. adjective Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
  7. adjective Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
  8. verb simple past and past participle of barb

Similar words

prickly bristled bristly biting nipping armed pungent thorny spiny burry

Often followed by

wire and with arrow wires arrows points point spear

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