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How to pronounce barbed in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny
Type Words
Synonyms biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent


a barbed compliment.

Examples of barbed

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In between each layer, she placed barbed wire, to keep the layers from shifting.
From the sacbee.com
There were, in addition to wall heights, barbed wire along the top of the walls.
From the time.com
We made our way toward the tracks, hopped a barbed-wire fence and bleated again.
From the inrich.com
Barbed wire and armed guards aren't your typical intro to a startup pitch event.
From the techcrunch.com
The Leicester skeleton also has a barbed iron arrowhead stuck in its upper back.
From the newscientist.com
Barbed wire surrounds banks and state-owned offices, with armoured cars outside.
From the economist.com
The growers have hired security guards and added fences topped with barbed wire.
From the stltoday.com
The car crashed through a barbed wire barrier and headed down into a river wash.
From the halesowennews.co.uk
The house was built in 1861 for barbed wire entrepreneur Joseph Farwell Glidden.
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More examples
  • Capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
  • Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
  • Barbing is a municipality in the district of Regensburg in Bavaria in Germany.
  • Having barbs; Bearded (also applied to roses)
  • Bearded. Usually specifically of the arrow; also, of the five leaflets in the compound leaf of some roses.
  • Bristles and hairs that are hooked backwards or downwards
  • Having sharp, normally downward- or backward-pointing projections. Said of an awn, bristle, or other structure.
  • Used to refer to points of arrows and spears and the sepals of a rose.
  • A term variously applied. Firstly: to the points that stand back in the head of an arrow or fishing-hook, etc. Secondly: to a Cross when its extremities are like the barbed irons used for striking fish. Thirdly: to the five leases of the Heraldic-Rose; which always appear on its outside. ...