Pricking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRICKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make a small hole in (something) with a sharp point; pierce slightly
• feel a sensation as though a sharp point were sticking into one
• cause mental or emotional discomfort to
• provoke to action
• (especially of a horse or dog) make (the ears) stand erect when on the alert
• (of tears) cause the sensation of imminent weeping in (a person's eyes)
NOUN:
• a prickly feeling
• an act of piercing something with a sharp point
• a small hole or mark made by pricking something.
• a sharp pain caused by being pierced with a sharp point
• a sudden feeling of an unpleasant emotion
• a stupid or contemptible man.
• a spiked stick used for driving oxen.
• The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
• The driving of a nail into a horse\'s foot so as to produce lameness.
• Same as Nicking.
• A sensation of being pricked.
• The mark or trace left by a hare\'s foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
• Dressing one\'s self for show; prinking.
• the act of puncturing with a small point
• a man's penis.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to puncture slightly

Words related to PRICKING

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Words that contain PRICKING

prickings18 pinpricking22

How to use PRICKING in a sentence

• A thousand needles seemed pricking her face, and suddenly she remembered the thermometer.
• And when you come near me I feel a pricking in my thumbs.
• I felt all around to see if its clothes pinched anywhere, or if there were any pins pricking.
• Now, with every nerve alert and pricking with suspense, it returned to him very forcibly.
• It works finely until somebody spoils the whole thing by pricking the super-intelligence bladder and letting out all the wind.
• To the right lay the open country, broad plains with clumps of woodland, and the towers of castles pricking out from above the groves.
• Till at last the pricking thing had begun to grow fainter and her will stronger and she was able to break away.
• Yet it was not fear that held me there, though it was like a gentle pricking all over me.
• The most successful method of raising plants is to sow the seed in pots during February, pricking off the plants as soon as large enough.
• If a cold frame on a spent hot-bed can be spared, it may be utilised by pricking off the seedlings into it, or the pans and boxes may simply be placed under its protection.
• By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
• A supreme self-confidence carries him along, and the spur of ambition is constantly pricking.
• The little red princess felt a strange pricking on her shoulders.
• In a week he could watch one without even pricking up his ears.
• A few of them dismounted, and, sword in hand, walked here and there among the bleeding groups of dead, pricking them to see if any still lived.
• And so, half distracted, pricking up her ears at the slightest creak on the stairs, Esther waited for news of her Benjy.
• My conscience has kept up a dull pricking on the subject, though, for ever so many weeks.
• Philip was roused a second time by the sensation of something pricking him on the chest.
• Lauder saw the man examined and tested by pricking.
• Nay, if the whole arm be cut off, the pain which arises from pricking the nerve stump will appear to be seated in the fingers, just as if they were still connected with the body.
• It was then that strength returned to her, and she sprang up, crying wildly, every pulse alert and pricking her to action.
• They marched across the street, forcing their way roughly through the crowd, and pricking the town’s-people with their bayonets.
• It was on this last score that Lionel was feeling a pricking of conscience.
• If, now, the web be injured by pricking it or placing some irritating substance upon it, a change takes place in the circulation.
• He grew anxious and there was a hot fear pricking at his heart.
• Then came my Lord of Arundel pricking across the down, And behind him the Mayor and Burgesses of merry Suthampton town.

Similar words containing PRICK without suffix ing

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