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View synonyms for ear-piercing

ear-piercing

[ eer-peer-sing ]

adjective

  1. extremely harsh and irritating to the ear:

    ear-piercing noise.



ear piercing

noun

  1. the making of a hole in the lobe of an ear, using a sterilized needle, so that an earring may be worn fastened in the hole
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. so loud or shrill as to hurt the ears
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ear-piercing1

First recorded in 1595–1605
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Example Sentences

Is it true that I am the only person who has ever been interviewed twice [ear-piercing whistle] by Playboy?

All that Huck Finn innocence was wiped out with one ear-piercing pig-like squeal.

I once even got detention for telling a new male classmate with an ear piercing he probably had AIDS.

Then with one loud ear-piercing shriek thrown back on the wind—see!

His rhetoric was set forth with an ear-piercing elocution, and a voice that sometimes crashed like cannon.

Bill Hayes, he of the gray mustache and the ear-piercing faller's cry, was a "long-stake" man.

No one has ever more skilfully communicated his own disenchantment; no one ever blown a more ear-piercing note of sadness.

But he jumped up, and ran down to the shore, and sent an ear-piercing yell across the water.

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