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lancinating

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lan·ci·nat·ing  (lns-ntng)
adj.
Characterized by a sensation of cutting, piercing, or stabbing.
[From lancinate, to stab, from Latin lancinre, lancint-, to lacerate.]
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Adj.1.lancinating - painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
lancinate, piercing, stabbing, cutting, knifelike, keen
sharp - keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point; "a sharp pain"; "sharp winds"


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Such men will well understand the lancinating pains of the cancer which was now consuming Athanase; they have gone through those long and bitter deliberations made in presence of some grandiose purpose they had not the means to carry out; they have endured those secret miscarriages in which the fructifying seed of genius falls on arid soil.
An Old Maid by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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