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barbed

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1. barbed - Adjective

2. barbed - Verb

4. barbed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Barb

Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)

Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. George Takei

As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany. Helmut Kohl

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. Kurt Vonnegut

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. Laurie Halse Anderson

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people. George Takei

It's going to be 20 feet high. It's going to have barbed wire on the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, "It will kill you - Warning." Herman Cain

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