lancinate
verbEtymology First attested in 1603; borrowed from Latin lancinātus, perfect passive participle of lancinō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French lanciner.
1
To pierce or stab (as with a lance); to lance.
- Through a minuscule pinhole in that lead block, he could now direct tiny, controlled doses of a furiously potent beam of X-rays [...] to lancinate any cancer cell to death.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 159: