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to piercing
verb
To puncture; to break through
synonyms
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Ms. Crawford, who was described in the opinion as having "several facial piercings" and being "enthusiastic about piercing," had admitted to piercing the kittens herself without anesthetic, though she did treat them with antiseptic after the procedure.
In "Beckett Shorts" it is Mr. Glass's icy, repetitive music that comes closest to piercing the heart.
At the wounded heart of it all is Macon Blair, a lethal screen weapon employed to piercing effect by Saulnier.
But during Mr. Moravec's piece, stage lights rose from darkness to piercing intensity, an unnecessarily literal depiction of what the music conveyed on its own.
After a buffet lunch under the shade of an acacia, the elephants demonstrated their repertoire of noises, from deep breathing to piercing squeals – sounds Doug variously described as double didgeridoo, raspberry, and a storm rolling across the savannah.
The flute line, played deftly by Ulla Suokko, is all over the place, with huge leaps from dark-hued low tones to piercing notes at the top of the instrument's range, and with similarly abrupt shifts in dynamics.
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I want to pierce my nose.
Football just started to try to pierce it.
Conservative cartoonists are struggling to pierce Mr Obama's armour.
I see ambiguity and I want to pierce through it.
So far Mr Alckmin has failed to pierce this indifference.
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