Definitions for barbed

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Spelling: [bahrbd]

IPA: /bɑrbd/

Barbed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in barbed (abbder).

Definitions for barbed

noun

1. a point or pointed part projecting backward from a main point, as of a fishhook or arrowhead.
2. an obviously or openly unpleasant or carping remark.
3. Botany, Zoology. a hooked or sharp bristle.
4. Ornithology. one of the processes attached to the rachis of a feather.
5. one of a breed of domestic pigeons, similar to the carriers or homers, having a short, broad bill.
6. any of numerous, small, Old World cyprinid fishes of the genera Barbus and Puntius, often kept in aquariums.
7. Usually, barbs. Veterinary Pathology. a small protuberance under the tongue in horses and cattle, especially when inflamed and swollen.
8. Also, barbe. a linen covering for the throat and breast, formerly worn by women mourners and now only by some nuns.
9. Obsolete. a beard.

adjective

1. having barbs.
2. calculated to wound; cutting:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a barb or barbs.

Origin of barbed

First recorded in 1520-30; barb¹ + -ed³

Examples for barbed

These days, the vast majority of coalition forces work within the walls, guard towers, and barbed wire of their bases.

That same book,—how it rankled, like a barbed arrow, in his side!

Why should you put up all this barbed wire between yourself and your friends?

So perhaps the barbed wire and the machinations of the plot did duty for other obstacles that stood between myself and freedom.

Even after she left its barbed bosom, it did its best to further excommunicate and sideline her.

Click here to see a photo of Galbraith and Fairchild posing in front of barbed wire that marked off mines in the zone.

Two parallel fences tipped with barbed wire formed a narrow corridor into the gymnasium.

Where is that armor of distrust in which you were to resist the barbed arrow of the enchantress?

Lines of trenches and coils of barbed wire arrest your attention.

The injustice of it was like a barbed and poisoned arrow in his heart.