impale
v.
pin down, fix in place with a sharp or pointed object; pierce through with a sharp object, stab; make helpless, immobilize with a word or look
Impale
impale
Verb
1. pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"
(synonym) transfix, empale, spike
(hypernym) pierce, thrust
(hyponym) pin
(derivation) impalement
2. kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; "the enemies were impaled and left to die"
(synonym) stake
(hypernym) kill
(entail) pierce
(derivation) impalement
Impale
(v. t.)
To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.
(v. t.)
To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.
(v. t.)
To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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