SPIKED Synonyms

• capable of wounding

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having a sharply uneven surface or outline

• having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

• cutting or able to cut as if with a knife

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp or distinct edge

• having a hole cut through

• notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

• having spines

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• bristling with perplexities

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous

• a depression scratched or carved into a surface

• obscene terms for penis

• the act of puncturing with a small point

• make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn

• cause a stinging pain

• to stick up

• stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick

• cause a prickling sensation

• to cause a sharp emotional pain

• deliver a sting to

• (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

• an offensive move in a sport or game

• intense adverse criticism

• ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

• the act of attacking

• a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase

• a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition

• the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)

• strong criticism

• launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with

• attack in speech or writing

• take the initiative and go on the offensive

• attack someone physically or emotionally

• set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task

• begin to injure

• a dense cluster of flowers or foliage

• fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

• an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree

• the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium

• good hearing

• the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear

• attention to what is said

• fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

• pierce with a sharp stake or point

• make strong or stronger

• enclose by or as if by a fortification

• prepare oneself for a military confrontation

• add nutrients to

• add alcohol to (beverages)

• (baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)

• the act of contacting one thing with another

• a conspicuous success

• (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together

• a dose of a narcotic drug

• a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate

• a connection made via the internet to another website

• cause to move by striking

• hit against; come into sudden contact with

• deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument

• reach a destination, either real or abstract

• affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely

• hit with a missile from a weapon

• encounter by chance

• cause to experience suddenly

• make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target

• kill intentionally and with premeditation

• drive something violently into a location

• reach a point in time, or a certain state or level

• produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments

• hit the intended target or goal

• pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to

• pierce with a sharp stake or point

• kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole

• a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)

• a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns

• spin, wind, or twist together

• make by braiding or interlacing

• do lacework

• draw through eyes or holes

• add alcohol to (beverages)

• somewhat ill or prone to illness

• having or rising to a peak

• having or as if having especially high-pitched spots

• (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle

• a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.

• any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

• a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning

• any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object

• to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe

• pierce with a sharp stake or point