lancinate

English

Etymology

Latin lancināre

Verb

lancinate (third-person singular simple present lancinates, present participle lancinating, simple past and past participle lancinated)

  1. (transitive) To pierce or stab (as with a lance); to lance.
    • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 159:
      Through a minuscule pinhole in that lead block, he could now direct tiny, controlled doses of a furiously potent beam of X-rays [...] to lancinate any cancer cell to death.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

lancināte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of lancinō
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.