piercing

(verb) cut or make a way through. Synonyms: pierce. Examples: "The knife cut through the flesh." "The path pierced the jungle." "Light pierced through the forest."

(verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply. Synonyms: pierce. Examples: "The cold pierced her bones." "Her words pierced the students."

(verb) sound sharply or shrilly. Synonyms: pierce. Example: "The scream pierced the night."

(verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument. Synonyms: pierce, thrust.

(verb) make a hole into. Synonyms: pierce. Example: "The needle pierced her flesh."

(adj) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions. Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp. Examples: "An acute observer of politics and politicians." "Incisive comments." "Icy knifelike reasoning." "As sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang." "Penetrating insight." "Frequent penetrative observations."

(adj) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument. Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating. Examples: "A cutting wind." "Keen winds." "Knifelike cold." "Piercing knifelike pains." "Piercing cold." "Piercing criticism." "A stabbing pain." "Lancinating pain."