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barbed

barbed is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Barb. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses

Definitions

  1. 1past tense & past participle

    of Barb

  2. 2adjective

    Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)

  3. 3adjective

    Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

  4. 4adjective

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

    "a horse with a short bristly mane"

    "bristly shrubs"

  5. 5adjective

    capable of wounding

    "a barbed compliment"

    "a biting aphorism"

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