Impalement

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  • n. The act of torturing or executing someone by impaling them on a sharp stake.
  • n. The joining of two coats of arms on one shield.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.
  • n. An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed.
  • n. That which hedges in; inclosure.
  • n. The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of impaling, or putting to death by driving a stake through the body.
  • n. The act of inclosing with stakes, or paling.
  • n. A paling or hedge; an inclosure; hence, a floral inclosure or flower-cup.
  • n. A piece of ground inclosed by pales; an inclosed space.
  • n. In heraldry, the marshaling side by side of two escutcheons combined in one. See impale
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cruelty    inhuman treatment   
    Variant
    impale   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inclosure   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    defacement    disembowelment    ghraib    systemin    Brynn   
     
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