lancinating, adj.
Characterized by piercing or stabbing sensations; lancinating pain
“There were crisp husks of beechmast and cast acorn cups underfoot in the russet slime of dead bracken where the rains of the equinox had so soaked the earth that the cold oozed up through the soles of the shoes, lancinating cold of the approach of winter that grips hold of your belly and squeezes it tight.”
--Angela Carter,
The Erlking
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