BARBED


Meaning of BARBED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

barbed wire (= wire with a lot of sharp points on it, used for making fences )

The prison was surrounded by barbed wire.

barbed wire

a high barbed wire fence

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

wire

Given the ferocious imagination of his subconscious, it's hardly surprising that his celluloid output is laced with lethal barbed wire .

On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.

She had driven slowly forward to the yellow demarcation line and the frightening folds of barbed wire .

I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire .

You may not, however, top your wall with broken glass or barbed wire without the consent of your local authority.

He surrounded them with barbed wire .

The wall was topped with rolls of barbed wire and jagged ends of glass stuck into the eight-foot concrete slabs.

The courthouse itself was protected by barbed wire and ringed with police.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

She had a pair of batons with wickedly barbed ends.

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