thorn; sting; thrust; to prick; to pierce; to stab; to assassinate; to murder

to satirize; to mock; irony; satire; sarcasm

(sports) to sprint; to spurt; to dash; to put in a big effort to achieve a goal as the deadline approaches

to be attacked by an assassin

to assassinate

(medicine) to puncture; to do a needle biopsy

to prick with a needle; to treat by acupuncture

barb; barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)

to stab; to hack

visiting card; name card

bayonet practice in pairs

thorny; (fig.) barbed; sarcastic

to pick out the bones in a fish

bayonet charge

to carp; nitpicking; petty criticism

bayonet

venomous sting

barb; whiskers

to stab from hiding

pimple; comedo; blackhead; acne

to tattoo

to backstab

to ridicule; to mock

to plot to assassinate

acne

spur (on riding boots)

spur; bony outgrowth

fishbone

a thorn in one's eye; fig. a thorn in one's flesh

a thorn in one's flesh

horse spur

to find fault; to carp; nitpicking

amniocentesis (used in Taiwan)

amniocentesis

one's words carry barbs; one's remarks are sarcastic

talk nicely and avoid disputes; give compliments and not remarks

a thorn in one's side