PIERCING meaning: Creating holes in body parts

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Piercing:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

piercing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
piercing: Merriam-Webster
piercing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
piercing: Collins English Dictionary
piercing: Vocabulary.com
piercing: Wordnik
piercing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
piercing: Wiktionary
piercing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
piercing: Infoplease Dictionary
piercing: Dictionary.com
piercing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Piercing (disambiguation), Piercing (film), Piercing (metalworking), Piercing (novel), Piercing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Piercing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
piercing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
piercing: Rhymezone
piercing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
piercing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
piercing: FreeDictionary.org
piercing: Mnemonic Dictionary
piercing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Piercing: Body Art

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

piercing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
piercing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

piercing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

Piercing: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
piercing: Medical dictionary
Piercing: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
piercing: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (piercing)

▸ noun:  A hole made in the body so that jewellery can be worn through it.
▸ noun:  An item of jewellery designed to be fitted through a piercing (sense 2).
▸ adjective:  Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating.
▸ adjective:  Of temperature, extremely cold so that it penetrates through clothing and shelter.
▸ adjective:  Of sound, loud and sharp; shrill.

Similar:

knifelike, stabbing, sharp, cutting, high-pitched, shrill, high, acute, keen, incisive, more...

Opposite:

blunt, dull

Types:

earlobe, cartilage, tragus, helix, daith, snug, conch, anti-tragus, rook, industrial, more...

Phrases:

body piercing, ear piercing, piercing point, armor piercing, armour piercing, more...

Adjectives:

more, body, less, ear, armour, genital, heart, all, rotary, cold, sharp

Colors:

electric blue, neon green, bright yellow, hot pink, vivid orange, more...