piercing
Meaning of piercing
verb
- To puncture; to break through
The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash.
- To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry
Can you believe he pierced his tongue?
- To break or interrupt abruptly
A scream pierced the silence.
- To get to the heart or crux of (a matter).
to pierce a mystery
- To penetrate; to affect deeply.
- The action of the verb to pierce.
- A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it.
ear piercing
- An item of jewelry designed to be fitted through a piercing.
- Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating.
piercing eyes
- Of temperature, extremely cold so that it penetrates through clothing and shelter.
- Of sound, loud and sharp; shrill.
The piercing noise of the children could be heard two blocks from the elementary school.
Information about piercing
- The plural form of piercing is: piercings.
- Languages in which piercing is used:
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Hyphenation of piercing
pierc-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- piercing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
piercing synonyms
Meaning acute:
acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp
Meaning shrill:
Meaning cutting:
cutting, keen, knifelike, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating
Meaning incisive:
Words that rhyme with piercing
Macing, acing, afacing, aggracing, antiracing, backspacing, belacing, boldfacing, bracing, catfacing, chacing, commonplacing, counterbracing, defacing, disgracing, dispacing, displacing, effacing, embacing, embracing, emplacing, enfacing, engracing, enlacing, enracing, facing, footracing, furnacing, gracing, grimacing, horseracing, inlacing, interembracing, interfacing, interlacing, interspacing, intertracing, lacing, letterspacing, macing, manacing, medevacing, menacing, microspacing, misplacing, misspacing, mistracing, necklacing, nonfacing, nonmenacing
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