barbed

动词 barb:

1. provide with barbs
   同义词：barb
2. provide with barbs
   同义词：barb

形容词 barbed:

1. capable of wounding
   同义词：biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious
2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
   同义词：barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny

1. A defensive barrier of pointed, inclined stakes or barbed wire.
   防御工事筑有尖利的、倾斜的木桩或铁蒺藜的防御性的障碍物
2. Disentangling all this barbed wire is the devil's own job.
   理这些带刺的铁丝，真是个苦差事。
3. A curved or barbed plant or animal part.
   弯曲部分，有钩部分曲线形或长倒刺的动植物部分

barbed

adj.（形容词）
Having barbs.
有倒钩的
Cutting; stinging:
尖刻讥讽的；锋利的：
例句：
barbed criticism; barbed statements.
尖刻的批评；锋芒毕露的声明

【引伸】
barb.edness