Synonyms for barbed
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1. barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordaciousadjective

   capable of wounding

   "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

   Synonyms:
   briary, nipping, prickly, setose, mordacious, snappy, crisp, pungent, burred, nippy, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, acrid, burry, biting, bitter, spiny, bristled, frosty

   Antonyms:
   unsarcastic, unarmed

2. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thornyadjective

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

   "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

   Synonyms:
   briary, nipping, prickly, setose, waspish, mordacious, pungent, burred, spinous, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, burry, biting, splenetic, spiny, bristled

   Antonyms:
   unsarcastic, unarmed

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1. barbedadjective

   Synonyms:
   bearded

2. barbedadjective

   Synonyms:
   clad in armor

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1. List of paraphrases for "barbed":

   thorny, barbed-wire

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1. Maria Lozbin:

   My husband had wanted to come back to his homeland all his life, he came back when it was all closed here, when it was prohibited to come here. He crossed through barbed wire.

2. Greg Hare:

   While we were there we thought we would look around and within five minutes Senior Project Archaeologist Christian Thomas found this massive barbed antler point sticking out of the ice patch.

3. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar:

   Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from Co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

4. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

   I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

5. Ronald Reagan:

   Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.