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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pin-pricked en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.
    • [B]ut Gillespie was too tough or insensitive to feel the lethal waves sent out from his pin-pricked image. 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:

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more pin-pricked Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most pin-pricked Degree=Sup lexicographic