Close and Pricked

Opposite meaning words

Close verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.

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Pricked is an antonym for close.

Nearby Words: closed, closeness, closing, closely, closure

Definitions of Close not found.

Close is an antonym for pricked in stab topic.

Nearby Words: prick, prickly, pricking, pricker, prickled

Picked the rose one early morn Pricked my finger on a thorn They'd grown so close, their winding wove The Briar and the Rose.

Source: Music / The Black Rider
After being accidentally and lightly pricked on the rump by the soft spikes of the young hedgehog Droge, Wolfrum is ready to draw blood from him with his sword, and when Balla interferes, he's comes close to lopping one of her ears of.

Source: Fanfic / The Urthblood Saga

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