FANGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fanged mean? 

• FANGED (adjective)
  The adjective FANGED has 1 sense:

1. having fangs

  Familiarity information: FANGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FANGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having fangs

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

fang (hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison)

 Context examples 

Unable to turn his back on the fanged danger and go on, the bull would be driven into paroxysms of rage.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There was their mastery over all these sharp-fanged dogs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He could not follow, for before his nose leaped the merciless fanged terror that would not let him go.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broad-breasted dog, white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff of his dreams.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)