pricking in English

verb

1

make a small hole in (something) with a sharp point; pierce slightly.

prick the potatoes with a fork

synonyms: pierce, puncture, make/put a hole in, stab, perforate, nick, jab

2

(especially of a horse or dog) make (the ears) stand erect when on the alert.

the dog's tail was wagging and her ears were pricked

synonyms: raise, erect

noun

prick

verb

pierce, trouble, goad, raise, twinge, prickle, sting, prick up
pierce, puncture, make/put a hole in, stab, perforate, nick, jab
trouble, worry, distress, perturb, disturb, cause someone anguish, afflict, torment, plague, prey on, gnaw at
goad, prod, incite, provoke, urge, spur, stimulate, encourage, inspire, motivate, push, propel, impel
raise, erect
twinge, sting
goad
prickle
sting, bite
prick up, cock up

Use "pricking" in a sentence

1. My fingers are pricking.

2. She felt tears pricking her eyelids.

3. He felt a pricking sensation in his throat.

4. My toe is pricking with the gout.

5. He is busy pricking out some cabbage seedlings.

6. We watched the girl pricking out an embroidery pattern.

7. Helen now had a curious pricking sensation up and down her spine.

8. Objective:To explore more precise, simply method of positioning pricking with little complication enforced by Analog machine.

9. His conscience is pricking him now that he realizes what he has done.

10. It was growing dusk; stars were pricking out in the cold sky above them.

11. She looked at the red wine stain on his trousers and felt tears pricking her eyes.

12. With the pricking of the Wall Street bubble, that theory is now itself history.

13. He pushed back a long, greasy spike of hair that kept slipping down and pricking his ear.

14. That way you avoid the hazards of pricking out seedlings and keep root disturbance to a minimum.

15. One vacation she was given a holiday job in the palace gardens, pricking out marigolds.

16. She wanted to remain in the earthy warmth of the glass-house, watching him pricking out seedlings.

17. The conjuncture of the Chinese martial arts' culture is coming into being with the tendency of pricking up.

18. 21 I could feel tears pricking the corners of my eyes, threatening to spill out again.

19. "He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great Compunction ." Compunction A pricking; stimulation

20. When floating leaves start coming to the surface of the water the plants are ready for pricking out.

21. Bloggers saw themselves as gadflies, pricking the arrogance of established elites from their home computers, in their pyjamas, late into the night

22. This is a paper for the therapeutic effects of 35 nocturia and 32 urinary and fecal incontinence with needle-pricking method.

23. Matters were not helped by Maeve occasionally pricking her finger with the needle, but at last she had had her say.

24. If the individual can not feel the tiny pricking sensation, it is a sign of faulty nerve function in the feet.

25. The practice articles include practice skins for tattoo and pricking and ingraining . Models , eyebrows , eyes , lips , note books , rulers and forfexes can be provided .

26. This page shows answers to the clue Compunction, followed by ten definitions like “ A pricking; stimulation ”, “ A feeling of deep regret ” and “ Feeling of regret for one's action ”

27. 15 All process can be accomplished by automatic from takin paper, yarn and glue to forming sack, compounding, margin folding, printing, pin-hole pricking, cutting, counting and sack out.

28. Objective: To compare, through randomized controlled trials of large samples of patients, the effects and mechanisms of needle-pricking therapy and rotating-pulling manipulation on blood velocity, Angiokinesis, and blood viscosity in patients with vertebral artery cervical spondylosis.

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30. ABSTRACT Objective: To compare, through randomized controlled trials of large samples of patients, the effects and mechanisms of needle-pricking therapy and rotating-pulling manipulation on blood velocity, Angiokinesis, and blood viscosity in patients with vertebral artery cervical spondylosis

31. Mid-14c., "remorse, contrition (for wrongdoing, as a means of attaining forgiveness of one;s sins)," from Old French Compunction (12c., Modern French componction), from Late Latin Compunctionem (nominative compunctio) "remorse; a stinging or pricking" (of the conscience), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin compungere "to severely prick, sting," from com-, here

32. Compunction (n.) mid-14c., "remorse, contrition (for wrongdoing, as a means of attaining forgiveness of one;s sins)," from Old French Compunction (12c., Modern French componction), from Late Latin Compunctionem (nominative compunctio) "remorse; a stinging or pricking" (of the conscience), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin compungere "to severely prick, sting," from com-, here

33. Appoint (v.) late 14c., "to decide, resolve; to arrange the time of (a meeting, etc.)," from Anglo-French Appointer, Old French apointier "make ready, arrange, settle, place" (12c., Modern French Appointer), from apointer "duly, fitly," from phrase à point "to the point," from a-"to" (see ad-) + point "point," from Latin punctum "small hole made by pricking" (from nasalized form of PIE root