adjective. Able or seeming to pierce, as.

adjective. Very loud; shrill.

adjective. Fixed and intense in appearance.

adjective. Causing pain, especially because of cold.

adjective. Trenchant; incisive.

adjective. Keenly perceptive or intelligent.

noun. A piece of jewelry designed to be worn through a perforation in a body part.

noun. The hole through which such a piece of jewelry is worn.

noun. Penetration. Specifically

noun. In metalworking, the operation of sawing out a pattern or an object from a plate, as distinguished from punching it out. It is done with a jigor band-saw.

Penetrating; sharp; keen: as, piercing eyes; a piercing wind.

That touches or moves with pity, alarm, anguish, etc.: as, a piercing cry.

adjective. Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively.

verb. Present participle of pierce.

noun. The action of the verb to pierce

noun. A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it

noun. The jewelry itself

adjective. Anything or anyone that pierces.

adjective. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

adjective. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

"She was already desperate for a pee; it pushed against her bladder like a pin piercing her belly."

perceptive  sharp  

Siberian  absorbing  acerb  acerbate  acerbic  

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