Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing thorns; thorny.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
thorn . - adjective containing
thorns
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Examples
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Dr. Scoville, though he still kept his word and maintained his position with regard to the prisoners, continually "thorned" the captain with a prospect of the gallows, which he declared was his certain doom.
The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer Oliver Optic 1859
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And also, I do not wish to be hurled bodily into a patch of thorned vegetation.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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Also, I request that you not hurl me bodily into a clump of thorned vegetation.
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Everywhere, black, thorned leaves stormed down on the citizenry, piercing their flesh or leaving long, vicious cuts.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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Ahhh the thorned bee, such a lovely depiction of this seldom seen shy creature.
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Power radiates from it, cold and razor-thorned, prickles against her skin, her face.
Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010
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Everywhere, black, thorned leaves stormed down on the citizenry, piercing their flesh or leaving long, vicious cuts.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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From their shaking crowns fell hundreds of smaller thorned leaves.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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From their shaking crowns fell hundreds of smaller thorned leaves.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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It now stretched more than eight feet in height, its sub-branches all at least three to four feet themselves and covered with scores of the dark, thorned leaves.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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