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.
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They 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 POST
Using 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 POST
Note that you should never prick or slice open quality sausages before cooking them.
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The 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 NEWS
Then they continue to prick the body, and, as they say, they draw off or suck out the humors until the body is left dry.
She 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 RUNCIMAN
This 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 MUKERJI
In Stanley's experience one man died within a minute, from a mere pin prick in the breast.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRIS
Then 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 BAUM
WORDS RELATED TO PRICK
- ache
- afflict
- aggrieve
- agonize
- ail
- anguish
- annoy
- bite
- chafe
- chasten
- constrain
- convulse
- cut to the quick
- discomfort
- disquiet
- distress
- exasperate
- excruciate
- gall
- grieve
- gripe
- harass
- harm
- harrow
- hit where one lives
- hurt
- inflame
- injure
- irk
- irritate
- nick
- prick
- punish
- rack
- rile
- sadden
- smart
- sting
- strain
- stress
- suffer
- throb
- tingle
- torment
- torture
- upset
- vex
- worry
- wound
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.