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Spiking

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    spiky
  2. 2
    protruding like a spike.

    "By referring to Figs. 1, and 2, it will be seen that the spiking pieces are all in place along the edges of the " tees " of beams and girders."

  3. 3
    Associated with or causing one or more sudden sharp increases.

    "The presence of background material often increases the difficulty level for analysis because the background may hide the spiking chemicals or may even react with the spiking chemicals."

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is spiked.

    "You're looking for reported cases of suspected poisonings, drink-spikings leading to illness or death, unexplained deaths that could have been down to poison, anything like that."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of spike form-of, gerund, participle, present

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