Thesaurus / prick
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Using a fork, prick each potato in several places, then place them on the baking sheet and bake for about 30 minutes.
CHILI-TINGED SWEET POTATOES ARE LOADED IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS - FLAVOR, NUTRITION AND SATISFACTIONELLIE KRIEGERFEBRUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThey were meant to prick, humiliate and demoralize the soldiers so they would defect from the war.
A LESBIAN COUPLE WHO SCATTERED ‘BUTTERFLIES’ TO UNDERMINE THE NAZISKAREN TUCKERDECEMBER 4, 2020WASHINGTON POSTUsing the sharp point of the knife, prick the duck skin all over except for the drumsticks.
ORANGE-SRIRACHA GLAZED DUCK AND ROASTED FRUIT ARE A STUNNING SHEET-PAN DINNER COMBINATIONOLGA MASSOVNOVEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POSTNote that you should never prick or slice open quality sausages before cooking them.
A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CAMP MEAL THAT EVERYONE CAN HELP WITHWES SILEROCTOBER 1, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEThe company 1Drop Diagnostics, which is developing credit card–sized chips to detect chemical markers of different diseases in blood samples from a finger prick, is working on portable blood tests for astronauts.
WHAT WILL ASTRONAUTS NEED TO SURVIVE THE DANGEROUS JOURNEY TO MARS?MARIA TEMMINGJULY 15, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThen they continue to prick the body, and, as they say, they draw off or suck out the humors until the body is left dry.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSShe ain't all greyhound; but the best man as ever I knew always said there never was a prick-eared one a bad 'un.
THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMANThis time I had my ankus with me, so that in case he should run away again I could prick his neck and make him behave.
KARI THE ELEPHANTDHAN GOPAL MUKERJIIn Stanley's experience one man died within a minute, from a mere pin prick in the breast.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISThen the Loon tried to prick the Tin Woodman's leg, but the tin only blunted the point of the thorn.
THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZL. FRANK BAUMWORDS RELATED TO PRICK
- advise against
- caution against
- chicken out
- counsel
- cry out against
- deprecate
- derail
- deter
- disadvise
- discourage
- disincline
- divert
- exhort
- expostulate
- faze
- hinder
- lean on
- persuade not to
- prevent
- prick
- put off
- remonstrate
- throw a wet blanket on
- throw cold water on
- throw off
- thwart
- turn off
- urge not to
- warn
- advised against
- caution against
- chickened out
- counselled
- cried out against
- deprecated
- derailed
- deterred
- disadvised
- discouraged
- disinclined
- diverted
- exhorted
- expostulated
- fazed
- hindered
- lean on
- persuaded not to
- prevented
- pricked
- put off
- remonstrated
- threw a wet blanket on
- threw cold water on
- threw off
- thwarted
- turned off
- urged not to
- warned
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