What is the meaning of mordacious?

adjective

  • Capable of wounding.
    • usage: "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
  • Biting or given to biting.
    • usage: "they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount"
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