barbed
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4.4
- adjective
- /bɑrbd/
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con espinas
- Barbed wire stretched across a side street, strung from barrels pocked with bullet holes.
- barbed wire
There's this spectral barbed wire curled around them, right?
- There's this spectral barbed wire curled around them, right?
- He had like one of those Pamela Anderson style tattoo anklets with the barbed wire, right?
- They looked like a prison, you know, barbed wires and tall gates and cameras all around.
- There's fence around it with barbed wire pointing out and pointing in.
- But they have, they set up electric fences and barbed wire around their wagons.
- Who set the barbed wire in no man's land and how?
- And you know, you would find things like old barns and barbed wire fences marking off certain areas.
- Are the Texas Rangers going to fight, you know, actively federal forces over this barbed wire?
- Yeah, yeah, they were thrown into cubic ward, you know, with these obstacles, barbed wire, trenches, ditches, caponiers.
- Well, we'd take those and put them as a grill on the front because they'll also cut barbed wire fences.
- And there was this saying that, you know, one of the soldiers sometimes has to put his body on the barbed wire so that others can go through.
- So there were all these barbed wire fences that were, you know, a legacy of the farming days.
- But then there was the Business School I spoke at, which was in a lovely campus, trees, grass, surrounded by a high wall with barbed wire on top of it.
Examples
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And here we have straight from the middle of this barbed wire heart.
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No need for barbed wire here.
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Barbed wire changed that forever.
Fiction book (1993) -
Barbed wire runs along the Jordan River, which forms the northern border between Israel and Jordan.
Academic text (2007) -
Barbed wire had changed the whole agricultural picture on the Western plains, the farmer said.
Fiction book (1993) -
Barbed wire fences and armed guard towers surrounded the compounds.
Academic text (2018) -
The farmer used barbed wire to keep the cattle from wandering off.
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The garden was surrounded by a barbed wire fence to deter intruders.
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Children were warned not to play near the barbed wire that lined the property.
Synonyms
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3.3
Covered with sharp points like thorns that can hurt to touch
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4.2
Covered with sharp points like those on rose bushes
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3.9
Covered with sharp points or thorns that can hurt you
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4.6
Covered with short, stiff hairs that feel rough
Covered with many small sharp points like spines
Covered with many small sharp hooks that stick to clothes or fur
Having small prickles that stick to clothes or fur
Covered with many short stiff hairs or small sharp points
Covered with stiff, sharp spines like a porcupine
Having many short stiff hairs like bristles
Having many short stiff hairs like those on a brush
Full of thorny plants that can prick you
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Etymology
Barbed comes from an old word barb that meant 'beard' and is related to barber, because short pointed hairs looked like tiny hooks. So barbed means 'having sharp points', just like the points on barbed wire or an animal's spines.