What is another word for Lancing?

Pronunciation: [lˈansɪŋ] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "lancing" that can be used to describe the act of making a small incision or puncture in something. Some of these synonyms include puncturing, pricking, piercing, incising, cutting, slitting, and slicing. These words can be used to describe processes that involve making a small opening in something, such as drawing blood or draining a wound. In addition to medical contexts, these synonyms can be used to describe a range of other activities, from slicing fruit to opening a package. By using these various synonyms, writers can add variety and nuance to their descriptions of lancing and related activities.

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What are the hypernyms for Lancing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Lancing

Voltaire displayed all the resources of his brilliant and fertile wit, and charmed everyone in spite of his sarcastic observations which did not even spare those present, but he had an inimitable manner of Lancing a sarcasm without wounding a person's feelings.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The business of Lancing boils is not especially edifying in itself; but that particular minor operation probably saved India.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy
The ice-coast in the east, and the two score bergs in the north and west leapt out of one hue into another; and were my days in this world to exceed those of old Abraham, I should to my last breath remember the solemn and terrible magnificence of that picture of lightning-coloured ice, the sulphur-tinctured shapes of the swollen bodies of clouds bringing their dark electric mines together in a huddle, the answering flash of the face of the deep to the Lancing of each spiral dazzling bolt, with the air as still as the atmosphere of a cathedral for the thunder to roll its echoes through.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell

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