Bristling
['brisliŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bristle
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Full, stocked, multitudinous, crowded, swarming, multifarious
ANT:Bare, nude, scant, devoid, vacant
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Examples
- Under the clear rays of the Arizona moon lay Powell, his body fairly bristling with the hostile arrows of the braves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They had, therefore, to meet the shock standing or kneeling behind a bristling wall of pikes or bayonets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- With his savage eyes and bristling moustache he was wonderfully like a tiger himself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was a great, tall, bristling Orson of a fellow, full six feet and some inches in his stockings, and arrayed in a red flannel hunting-shirt. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Sir,' returns Twemlow, with his wristbands bristling a little, 'YOU repeat the word; I repeat the word. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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