Impale

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pierce with a sharp stake or point.
  • v. To torture or kill by impaling.
  • v. To render helpless as if by impaling.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
  • v. more generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See empale.
  • v. To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.
  • v. To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fix upon a stake; drive or thrust a sharpened stake through: an ancient and Oriental mode of capital punishment.
  • Hence Figuratively, to render helpless as if pierced through or impaled: as, to impale a person upon his own argument or upon the horns of a dilemma.
  • To surround or inclose with or as with stakes, posts, or palisades.
  • In heraldry, to display side by side on one shield, separated palewise each from the other, as when the arms of husband and wife are represented together.
  • Hence — To place side by side as of similar importance and signification.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
  • v. pierce with a sharp stake or point
  • Verb Form
    impaled    impales    impaling   
    Hypernym
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    kill   
    Synonym
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    surround    transfix    torture    punish   
    Rhyme
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    Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   
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