pinprick
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈpɪnˌprɪk/
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punción
- After receiving the vaccine, I felt a quick pinprick in my arm.
- pinprick of light
- tiny pinprick
- little pinprick
Those situations that look very, very you, you might see a end of a that light at the end of the tunnel and that light might be the size of a pinprick.
- Those situations that look very, very you, you might see a end of a that light at the end of the tunnel and that light might be the size of a pinprick.
Examples
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Have you noticed any pinprick bruising?
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There seem to be small pinpricks of light playing between the branches of the trees.
Fiction book (2000) -
There was not a mark on the man except for that pinprick on the sole of his foot.
Fiction book (2002) -
Each grain was a minute pinprick that became increasingly painful to her.
Fiction book (1995) -
As he poked around at the very back, though, he felt a pinprick.
Fiction book (1999) -
Her eyes were wide and too bright; the pupils were pinpricks.
Fiction book (1990) -
Lacerations about the size of pinpricks on the throat.
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Overhead, the sky was clear, midnight dark with myriad pinpricks of stars.
Fiction book (1990) -
A few distant pinpricks of stars overhead, faint and far and pale.
Fiction book (1994) -
Some of the oil splattered on my arm, little pinpricks on my skin, but I didn't move or show that I felt it.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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4.3
A very small hole made by a pin
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pinprick comes from the words pin and prick, where prick means 'to make a small hole'. So a pinprick is a very small hole or a tiny point of pain or light.