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1. Capable of wounding
   "a barbed compliment";
   - biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious
    
2. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
   "a horse with a short barbed mane";
   - barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny

1. Provide with barbs
   "barbed wire"

See also: armed, sarcastic, sarky [Brit, informal]

Type of: alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Barb, Ontario