piercing
pir sing
- v cut or make a way through
- v move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply
- v sound sharply or shrilly
- v penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
- v make a hole into
- s having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- s painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
piercing knifelike pains
piercing cold
piercing criticism
- Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as snake soup or the I ching.
- Explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, proved effective at piercing American armor by firing a concave copper disc from a makeshift cannon, which transformed the slug midair into .
- Getting thongs or tattoos or body piercings, he argues, is actually a "statement to other kids that they are part of this very, very intense, powerful second family of peer group .