Definitions for barbed
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1. barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious(adj)

   capable of wounding

   "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

2. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny(adj)

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

   "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

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1. barbed(Adjective)

   Having barbs

2. barbed(Adjective)

   Bearded (also applied to roses).

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1. Barbed

   of Barb

2. Barbed(adj)

   accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)

3. Barbed(adj)

   furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire

Anagrams for barbed »

1. dabber

How to pronounce barbed?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of barbed in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of barbed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of barbed in a Sentence

1. Ronald Reagan:

   Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

2. Paul Hokemeyer:

   Regardless of where you stood on Trump, his victory disrupted the status quo, brought anger out of the shadows and barbed human relations.

3. Donald Trump:

   You saw that barbed wire going up. That barbed wire -- yes sir, we have barbed wire going up. Because you know what ? We're not letting these people invade our country.

4. Maria Lozbin:

   My husband had wanted to come back to his homeland all his life, he came back when it was all closed here, when it was prohibited to come here. He crossed through barbed wire.

5. Greg Hare:

   While we were there we thought we would look around and within five minutes Senior Project Archaeologist Christian Thomas found this massive barbed antler point sticking out of the ice patch.

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