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pricks of conscience

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  • conscience — noun (C, U) 1 MIND the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is morally right or wrong: Be guided by your conscience. | a social conscience (=a moral sense of how society should be) | a guilty/bad conscience (=feel guilty… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • prick someone's conscience — prick (someone s) conscience to make someone feel guilty. Seeing pictures of starving children pricks my conscience, but I rarely give money to charity …   New idioms dictionary

  • prick conscience — prick (someone s) conscience to make someone feel guilty. Seeing pictures of starving children pricks my conscience, but I rarely give money to charity …   New idioms dictionary

  • your conscience pricks you — prick your ˈconscience | your ˈconscience pricks you idiom to make you feel guilty about sth; to feel guilty about sth • Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister. Main entry: ↑prickidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • prick your conscience — prick your ˈconscience | your ˈconscience pricks you idiom to make you feel guilty about sth; to feel guilty about sth • Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister. Main entry: ↑prickidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • prick — [[t]prɪ̱k[/t]] pricks, pricking, pricked 1) VERB If you prick something or prick holes in it, you make small holes in it with a sharp object such as a pin. [V n] Prick the potatoes and rub the skins with salt... [V n prep] He pricks holes in the… …   English dictionary

  • Prick — Prick, n. [AS. prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. prick, pricke, D. prik, Dan. prik, prikke, Sw. prick. Cf. {Prick}, v.] 1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • prick — v. & n. v. 1 tr. pierce slightly; make a small hole in. 2 tr. (foll. by off, out) mark (esp. a pattern) with small holes or dots. 3 tr. trouble mentally (my conscience is pricking me). 4 intr. feel a pricking sensation. 5 intr. (foll. by at, into …   Useful english dictionary

  • lash — 01. Her beautiful long [lashes], and her startling blue eyes drive men crazy. 02. I got a [lash] in my eye, and couldn t see. 03. In the story The Odyssey , Ulysses had his men [lash] him to the mast of his ship so that he could listen to the… …   Grammatical examples in English

  • prick — prick1 [prık] v 1.) [T] to make a small hole in something using something sharp ▪ Prick the sausages before you grill them. prick yourself/prick your finger (=accidentally make a hole in your skin) ▪ She had pricked her finger on a rose thorn.… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • prick — /prɪk / (say prik) noun 1. a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like. 2. the act of pricking: the prick of a needle. 3. the state or sensation of being pricked. 4. Colloquial (taboo) a. the penis. b. an unpleasant or despicable person. 5.… …  

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