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barbed

/bɑɹbd/ · 6 letters · 5 distinct letters

  1. adjective

    capable of wounding

    a barbed compliment

  2. verb

    provide with barbs

    barbed wire

  3. adjective

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

    a horse with a short bristly mane

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