Prickles synonyms

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spikes
A tuft of hair that is stiffened, as with hair spray or soap, into a point.
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points
(Linguistics) A vowel point.
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chills
An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
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bristles
The definition of a bristle is a stiff hair.
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barbs
A sharp point projecting backward, as on the stinger of a bee.
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stabs
A sudden piercing pain.
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smarts
A smarting sensation, pain or distress
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spicula
A small needlelike structure, such as a copulatory organ in a nematode.
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pins
(--- Nautical) A thole pin.
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miseries
A cause of such suffering; pain, sorrow, poverty, squalor, etc.
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twinges
A sudden, brief, darting pain or pang
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stings
The wound or pain caused by stinging.
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pricks
A sharp pain caused by or as if by being pricked
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pangs
A sudden sharp bodily pain:
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pains
Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings:
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aches
A dull, steady pain.
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needles
A hypodermic needle.
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tingles
To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
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thorns
One that causes sharp pain, irritation, or discomfort:
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spines
Anything resembling either of these projections
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sensations
An immediate reaction to external stimulation of a sense organ; conscious feeling or sense impression
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tickles (related)
To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.
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feelings (related)
The sense of touch:
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stitches
(Sports) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, caused by internal organs pulling downwards on the diaphragm during exercise.
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Prickles Sentence Examples

  • Hooks, thorns and prickles are characteristic of many South African plants.

  • All these leaves have tiny prickles on their edges, which makes them feel rough to the touch.

  • The bark of the young tree is studded with stout prickles.

  • The leaves are very long and twisted, the small oval cones armed with recurved prickles; the tree is said to be of rapid growth.

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