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barbed

/bahrbd/US // bɑrbd //

有刺,有刺的,带刺,带刺的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having barbs.
    • : calculated to wound; cutting: a professor noted for his barbed criticisms.

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Examples

  • I could see the border, covered with barbed wire, fences and surveillance cameras.

  • There was no barbed wire around Yozgad, nor did there need to be.

  • A barbed tail juts out of its backside, making up about 70 percent of its length.

  • Some of the highways that run through the capital were blocked by military trucks and barbed-wire barricades.

  • Bumblebees have a painful sting and, unlike the honeybee, with its barbed stinger, the sharp, smooth bumblebee stinger can sting multiple times.

  • So perhaps the barbed wire and the machinations of the plot did duty for other obstacles that stood between myself and freedom.

  • Click here to see a photo of Galbraith and Fairchild posing in front of barbed wire that marked off mines in the zone.

  • Two parallel fences tipped with barbed wire formed a narrow corridor into the gymnasium.

  • Fences built ten-feet high with fifteen rows of electrified barbed wire surrounded the compound.

  • Even after she left its barbed bosom, it did its best to further excommunicate and sideline her.

  • It should be fixed in the head by means of a thin, barbed iron wedge.

  • It was by paying attention to such little things that the Cave-men learned to make barbed spears.

  • Careless idle words, spoken jestingly, but every one of which went home like a barbed arrow to the mother's heart.

  • He would drive it into them like a barbed arrow—that never afterwards in all their lives would they be rid of.

  • Even at that time I saw that some of the arrows were British, but more of some outland make with cruelly barbed heads.