lancinate

verb

1. To pierce or stab (as with a lance); to lance.

   transitive

   Through a minuscule pinhole in that lead block, he could now direct tiny, controlled doses of a furiously potent beam of X-rays [...] to lancinate any cancer cell to death.

Where it comes from

First attested in 1603; borrowed from Latin lancinātus, perfect passive participle of lancinō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French lanciner.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry lancinate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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