impale 的定义
im·paled, im·pal·ing.
- to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- to pierce with a sharpened stake thrust up through the body, as for torture or punishment.
- to fix upon, or pierce through with, anything pointed.
- to make helpless as if pierced through.
- Archaic. to enclose with or as if with pales or stakes; fence in; hem in.
- Heraldry. to marshal on an escutcheon party per pale. to be combined with in this way.
impale 近义词
stab
更多impale例句
- There is not a moment of Thompson’s screen time she does not render a cool pleasure, each line delivery an icicle falling from a skyscraper to impale an unfortunate target.
- Doctors this week published an image of just such an uncommon ocular impaling.
- These can be invasive, shift around while exercising and god forbid you do anything where you fall and impale yourself on it.
- But higher taxes would impale my paycheck, tomorrow, unless the right people are in office.
- When a company lives by the icon, it can, at the very least, impale itself on the icon.
- It squealed, shrill with triumph, and the horn swept up to impale him.
- The infuriated bull was fast nearing him, with head lowered, and horns set to crush or impale him.
- "I don't care to listen to your offensive utterances," she said, gazing at him as if to impale him with her glance.
- David took out his penknife and proceeded to impale his cigar upon the blade thereof.
- The elephants trumpeted shrilly; and while some tried to charge it and impale it on their tusks, others stampeded.