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prick
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PRICK
1
a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument <the immunization shot left a prick on my arm that turned into a bruise>
2
a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body <she felt a sharp prick when the nurse gave her the shot>
Related Words discomfort, distress, soreness, tenderness; affliction, agony, anguish, misery, sufferance, suffering, torment, torture; inflammation, sore, swelling; damage, detriment, harm, hurt, injury; backache, bellyache, charley horse, colic, complaint, earache, gripe, headache, stomachache, toothache
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