Spiked

Definition: Spiked

Spiked

Adjective

1. Equipped with long sharp-pointed projections especially along the top of a wall or fence; "the fence was iron and spiked along the top".

2. Having a long sharp point.

3. Having alcohol added; "a cup of brandy-laced coffee"; "he drank too much of the spiked punch".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spiked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonym: Spiked

Sharpness

Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred.

Crosswords: Spiked

How Lieutenant Rose RN Spiked the Enemy's Guns (1915)

Domination in Spiked Heels (1984)

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Business

Korea's vigorous economy and heightened interest in globalization including studying abroad have spiked its students' interest in the United States as an education destination. (references)

Economic History

Mozambique

The government's tight control of spending and the money supply, combined with financial sector reform, successfully reduced inflation from 70% in 1994 to less than 5% from 1998-99. Rates spiked in 2000, however, to a rate of 12.7% due to economic disruptions stemming from the devastating floods. (references)

Guyana

Inflation spiked during 1999 (up 8.6 percent, as compared to the government's original projection of 5.5 percent), nearly doubling the rates experienced during the early 1990s. Guyana's inflation rate is particularly sensitive to fluctuation in the exchange rate since a high percentage of both inputs and finished goods are imported. (references)

Ireland

After almost seven consecutive years of rapid economic growth without serious inflationary pressure, Ireland's inflation rate began to rise upwards in the last quarter of 1999 and spiked soon after, in 2000. The Irish rate of inflation, as measured by the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), peaked at 6 percent in October and November, and the average for the year was 5.3 percent. (references)

Human Rights

United Kingdom

The attackers have used iron pipes, baseball bats, sledgehammers, and spiked clubs to beat their victims or shot them in the knees and legs. (references)

Minorities

Georgia

On April 30, a group of "Basilists" attacked a prayer group of Jehovah's Witnesses in Tbilisi with clubs spiked with nails, burned literature, smashed windows and furniture, and seriously injured three persons. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "spiked": spiked apron ♦ spiked boots ♦ spiked loosestrife ♦ spiked seating ♦ spiked shoes. Additional references.

Ending with "spiked": frost-spiked, iron-spiked, re-spiked, soft-spiked, steel-spiked.

Albanian

me thumba të mprehta. (various references)

Arabic 

‏شائك الشعر, ‏شائك (acarpous, barbed, knotty, prickly, spiky, spiny, sticky, thistly, thorny, touchy, tricky). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свързан с шип, промушен с шип, подобен на шип. (various references)

Chinese 

尖 (Pointer). (various references)

Czech

špièatý (peaked, pointed, sharp, spiky). (various references)

Danish

spids (peak, point, pointed, summit, tip). (various references)

Dutch

spits (acute, astute, peak, point, pointed, shrewd, summit, tip), puntig (pointed). (various references)

Esperanto

pinta (pointed). (various references)

Finnish

tähkä-ärviä (spiked water milfoil, US Eurasian water milfoil), rantakukka (purple loosestrife, spiked loosestrife), piikkikenkä (spiked shoe). (various references)

French

pointu. (various references)

German

nagelte fest, gespickt. (various references)

Greek 

κν.παπούτσι με καρφιά (spike, spiked shoes), σβάρνα-ξύστρα (chain harrow, light spiked chain harrow), ξύστρα (pencil sharpener, rake, scraper, sharpener), μυριόφυλλο το σταχυώδες (spiked water milfoil, US Eurasian water milfoil), μεταφορικός ιμάντας με καρφιά (belt conveyor with studs or spikes, spiked belt), υπόδημα με μύτες (spike, spiked shoes), λύθρον το ιτεόμορφον (purple loosestrife, spiked loosestrife), τα αυτοφυή χόρτα καταστρέφονται πριν το φύτρωμα των τεύτλων,με την βοήθεια εύκαμπτης σβάρνας που φέρει ελαφρά δόντια σε κοντινές μεταξύ το (before the beets sprout, the pushing weeds are killed by means of a spiked chain harrow with a great number of light spikes). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממוסמר (hobnailed, nailed, rivetted). (various references)

Hungarian

hegyes (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, edgy, fine, hilly, keen, lurid, mountainous, peaky, poignant, pointed, pointy, rangy, sharp, sharp-edged, spiky, tapering). (various references)

Italian

appuntato (lance corporal, pointed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スナック麺 (circlip, snack noodle, snake, snake dance, snakeskin, snap, snap ring, snapshot, snatch, sneak in, sneak out, sneak preview, sneaker, snob, snobbism, snooker, snoopy, snorkel, snow, snow boat, snow gun, snow mobile, snow surfing, snow tire, spark, spark plug, sparkling wine, sparring, sparring partner, spatula, sperm bank, spice, spider, spike, spike heel, spiked shoes, spiker, spiky cut, spiral, spurt, spy, studded snow tire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スパイクシューズ (spiked shoes). (various references)

Manx

kibbinagh (stakelike, stick insect), birragagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ikedspay

Portuguese

pontudo (pointed), guarnecido de pregos, com pontas de ferro, apiciforme, aguçado (acuminate, acute, argute, keen, pointed, tapering). (various references)

Romanian

ghimpat (barbed, thorn). (various references)

Russian 

с остриями. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sa šiljcima, klasast (spiky), bodljikav (barbed, horned, prickly, spiky, spiny). (various references)

Spanish

puntiagudo (acuminate, peaked, pointed, ridged, ridgy, sharp pointed, spiky). (various references)

Swedish

fackelblomster (purple loosestrife), axslinga (spiked water milfoil, US Eurasian water milfoil). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งใส่เ�"ือยหรือตะปู. (various references)

Turkish

içki katılmış (laced), başaklı (in ear, spicate), alkollü (containing alcohol, intoxicated, intoxicating, spirituous, stiff, strong), çivili (spiky). (various references)

Ukrainian

колосовидний (spiky), колосистий, з зубцями. (various references)

Lythrum salicaria, Myriophyllum spicatum L., Phalaris brachystachys Link. (various references)

Misspellings

"Spiked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: siked, sliked, smiked, spaked, speced, spicked, spiker, spikey, spiled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dikes, kepis, piked, pikes, siped, skied, spied, spike.

-2 letters: desk, dies, dike, dips, disk, ides, kepi, keps, kids, kips, peds, pied, pies, pike, side, sike, sipe, skep, skid, skip, sped, spik.

-3 letters: die, dip, dis, eds, ids, kep, kid, kip, ped, pes, pie, pis, psi, sei, sip, ski.

-4 letters: de, ed, es, id, is.

+1 letter: skimped, skipped.

+3 letters: handspike, kidnapees, kidnapers, physicked, shunpiked, skippered, spikenard, sprinkled.

+4 letters: handspikes, kidnappees, kidnappers, kinescoped, lipsticked, mudskipper, pigsticked, spiderlike, spikenards, stockpiled.

+5 letters: besprinkled, dropkickers, mispackaged, mudskippers, pumpkinseed, shipwrecked, sprinklered.