razor-bladed

adjective

Equipped with a razor-sharp blade.

Meanings

adjective
  1. Equipped with a razor-sharp blade.

    Rather than darts, large razor-bladed discuses flew towards Dresdan.

    2023, Seth Pen, Stephen Lundy, Legend of the Samurai: Summoning, page 126
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    Dr. Marion Simms employs a pair of strong curved scissors, by which the cervix is cut through on each side up to its junction with the vagina, and the canal above this point is then incised on each side by a small razor-bladed knife (see Fig . 52) with a blunt point , to the extent required, the result being that an incision having a pyramidal shape, and widest below, is produced.

    1868, Graily Hewitt, The Diagnosis, Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of Women, page 467

    Above them, another razor-bladed pendulum detached from its hooks, swinging down in a wide arc.

    2022, C. L.. Herman, Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise: The epic conclusion to All of Us Villains
  2. broadlyfigurativelyCutting; causing sharp pain.

    Aria spun through them, slicing them like the razor-bladed winds of a tornado.

    2021, Kydd Wycked, King of Kings, Cruel Genesis: Part 1: Existence to Extinction
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    There was a long pause, and then Shay's razor-bladed laugh came through the network, running an icy finger down Tally's spine.

    2011, Scott Westerfeld, Specials, page 22

    They were too full of the razor-bladed cough that had been trying to take hold of him ever since his scuffle.

    2013, Jason Mott, The Returned, page 323

    Cedric's aura had become a hurricane of razor-bladed emotions, whipping around him, lancing Zoti with pain and regret and fear.

    2019, J.S. Morin, M.A. Larkin, Stellar Rampage: Mission 10
  3. Having a razor blade attached or inserted.

    By the time I read Cline's interview, the legend of razor-bladed Vietnamese vaginas had been dispelled for me, but there was a time when I believed it to be true.

    2010, Jerry Lembcke, Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, & Fantasies of Betrayal, page 99
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    Of course there are stories, just like there are stories of razor-bladed apples being given out on Halloween — be leery of the ways sub-urban legends reprimand and warn.

    2004, Recipes for Disaster, page 223

    Social scientists measured the public's risk assessments, and those issues that received more coverage routinely rated higher fear factors than stories covered less in the media—despite occurring much less frequently or, in the case of razor-bladed candy, not at all.

    2011, Allison Cerra, Christina James, Identity Shift, page 76
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of razor-blade
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