Meaning

6 senses
  1. Having barbs.

    having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

  2. Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.

  3. Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.

  4. Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).

  5. (usually)Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.

  6. Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom crawled under the barbed wire.

    ruТом ползал под колючей проволокой.

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  2. We could see barbed wire fences and guard towers.

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  3. The building is surrounded by a barbed wire fence.

    ruЗдание окружено забором из колючей проволоки.

    deDas Gebäude ist von einem Stacheldrahtzaun umgeben.

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  4. The field is surrounded by barbed wire.

    ruПоле окружено колючей проволокой.

    deUm die Wiese herum ist Stacheldraht.

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  5. The body was covered in barbed wires.

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Forms

more barbed, most barbed
Comparativemore barbed Lesson
Superlativemost barbed Lesson

regular

Synonyms

16 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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