Usually means: Sharp, stabbing pain, usually intense.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word lancinating:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. lancinating: Merriam-Webster
  2. lancinating: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. lancinating: Vocabulary.com
  4. lancinating: Wordnik
  5. lancinating: Wiktionary
  6. lancinating: Dictionary.com
  7. Lancinating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. lancinating: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. lancinating: Rhymezone
  10. Lancinating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. lancinating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. lancinating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. lancinating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lancinating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lancinating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lancinating: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. lancinating: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lancinating)

▸ adjective:  (especially of pain) Sharp, stabbing or piercing.

Similar:
stabbing, sharp, poignant, shooting, searing, laniary, peracute, biting, cutting, sharpish, more...

Adjectives:
sharp, severe, pain, spontaneous, more, acute, intermittent, pungent, violent, heavy, episodic

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Similar:
stabbing, sharp, poignant, shooting, searing, laniary, peracute, biting, cutting, sharpish, more...

Adjectives:
sharp, severe, pain, spontaneous, more, acute, intermittent, pungent, violent, heavy, episodic



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