Definitions for piercing

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piercing pierc·ing

Spelling: [peer-sing]

IPA: /ˈpɪər sɪŋ/

Piercing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in piercing (cegiinpr).

Definitions for piercing

adjective

1. loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
2. extremely cold or bitter:
3. appearing to gaze deeply or penetratingly into something:
4. perceptive or aware; acute:
5. sarcastic or caustic; cutting:

verb (used with object)

1. to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
2. to make a hole or opening in.
3. to bore into or through; tunnel.
4. to perforate.
5. to make (a hole, opening, etc.) by or as by boring or perforating.
6. to make a way or path into or through:
7. to penetrate with the eye or mind; see into or through:
8. to affect sharply with some sensation or emotion, as of cold, pain, or grief:
9. to sound sharply through (the air, stillness, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to force or make a way into or through something; penetrate:

Origin of piercing

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at pierce, -ing²

Examples for piercing

His piercing azure eyes are complemented by a new addition to his appearance: a septum piercing in his nose.

Our disaster was too awful, and the pathos of that solitary survivor too piercing.

Sensitive subjects are met with a short burst of laughter, and serious answers are sandwiched between a piercing gaze.

Daylight had not yet succeeded in piercing through the night clouds.

One of the most piercing observations of the article is that while those who had worked with him trusted Welby, no one knew him.

A second cry arose, piercing the silence with needle-like shrillness.

His face was stern, his nose beak-like, and his small eyes grey and piercing.

Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia.

Yet, every word had in it the piercing, horrible sting of truth.

“Hell yeah,” he says with a smile and a piercing, blue-eyed stare.