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Spired vs Spiked - What's the difference?

spired | spiked |

As adjectives the difference between spired and spiked

is that spired is having a spire while spiked is containing alcohol or drugs, often without the informing those who partake.

As a verb spiked is

past tense of spike.

spired

English

Adjective

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  • having a spire
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=John Muir, title=The Mountains of California, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Perhaps some one of the multitude excites special attention, some gigantic castle with turret and battlement, or some Gothic cathedral more abundantly spired than Milan's. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Edwin Bjorkman, title=The Soul of a Child, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=This was true not only of the trip on the steamer, the arrival at Enkoeping with its little old-fashioned red houses, the meeting with Mr. Swanson, the drive of thirty miles or more inland, the arrival at the sexton's house not far from a white spired church, and the introduction to a seemingly endless number of new faces, but of the whole long summer. }}

    Anagrams

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    spiked

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a beverage) Containing alcohol or drugs, often without the informing those who partake.
  • The large punch bowl has the special spiked punch, the small punch bowl is for the kids.
  • Having spikes.
  • Of a graph or trend that has rapidly reached a maximum.
  • Synonyms

    * (having spikes): peaked, spiky

    Derived terms

    * spiked sample * spiked value

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spike)