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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
lancinante
- feminine singular of lancinant
Italian
Adjective
lancinante (plural lancinanti)
- stabbing, shooting, excruciating (pain)
- Synonyms: acuto, cocente, intenso
2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:Trasalì e fu sul punto di gridare, attraversato da uno spasmo lancinante.- He started and almost cried out. A pang of pain had shot through his body.
- (literally, “He started and was on the verge of yelling, traversed by a shooting spasm.”)
- piercing (noise)
- painful (memory)
Latin
Pronunciation
Participle
lancinante
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of lancināns
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: lan‧ci‧nan‧te
Adjective
lancinante m or f (plural lancinantes)
- piercing (noise)
1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho, page 33:A cega […] após os gritos lancinantes que começou a soltar ao compreender que a perda da visão não era uma nova e imprevista consequência do prazer, mal ousava chorar e lamentar-se […]- The blind woman after the piercing shrieks she started uttering when she understood her loss of vision was not a new and unexpected consequence of her pleasure, barely dared to cry and complain