Usage examples (27)

• The severe pain is described as lancinating, cutting, tearing, burning, boring and pressing.
• The pains are very sharp, lancinating, and burning.
• I am also at a loss how far to connect the disuse of opium with the lancinating pains which have troubled me since the time to which I refer.
• By the time he reached home he was conscious of feeling very ill: he had lancinating pains in his limbs, a chill down his spine, an outrageous temperature.