lancinate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

lancinate
    adj 1: painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting
           wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing
           knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism";
           "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain" [syn: {cutting},
           {keen}, {knifelike}, {piercing}, {stabbing}, {lancinate},
           {lancinating}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Lancinate \Lan"ci*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lancinated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Lancinating}.] [L. lancinatus, p. p. of
   lancinare to fear.]
   To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. --De Quincey.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "lancinate":
      agonize, bloody, claw, convulse, crucify, excruciate, harrow,
      impale, kill by inches, lacerate, macerate, martyr, martyrize,
      punish, rack, rip, savage, scarify, torment, torture, wring

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