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pointed
Characterized by the use of a pointed crown, as in Gothic architecture:
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  1. Characterized by the use of a pointed crown, as in Gothic architecture:
  2. Sharp; cutting:
  3. (Comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
spiked
Having spikes.
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  1. Having spikes.
  2. Of a graph or trend that has rapidly reached a maximum.
  3. (Of a beverage) Containing alcohol or drugs, often without the informing those who partake.
piercing
Very loud; shrill:
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  1. Very loud; shrill:
  2. Keenly perceptive or intelligent:
  3. Trenchant; incisive:
Find another word for barbed. In this page you can discover 4 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for barbed, like: pointed, spiked, piercing and sharp.

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  • One of the guards studied a barbed dagger before placing all his weapons in a small sack.

  • Still, if the attacking side enjoyed an advantage in this respect, the possible landingplaces were few in number and were therefore well indicated, there had been ample time to protect them with earthworks and barbed wire, and in any disembarkation in face of resistance the tactical conditions favour the defence.

  • Other important manufactures are iron and steel, slaughtering and meat-packing products, boots and shoes, cigars, furniture, men's clothing, hosiery and knit goods, jute and jute goods, linen-thread, malt liquors, brick, cement, barbed wire, wire nails and planing-mill products.

  • The Papuan bow is rather short, the arrows barbed and tipped with cassowary or human bone.

  • from the lighthouse there was a "fortified zone" of barbed wire and machine-guns.

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