| pier | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, wharf, wharfage |
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| (noun) a support for two adjacent bridge spans | - |
| (noun) (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) | - |
| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| pierced | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, punctured |
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| piercing | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, stabbing |
| piercingly | (adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitter, bitterly |
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| (adverb) in a shrill voice | Synonyms: shrilly |
| pierid | (noun) any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs | Synonyms: pierid butterfly |
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