"barbed" in the verb sense
1. barb
provide with barbs
"barbed wire"
"barbed" in the adjective sense
1. barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious
capable of wounding
"a barbed compliment"
"a biting aphorism"
"pungent satire"
2. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
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"
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