impale
刺穿,穿刺,刺杀,刺入
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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.
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Examples
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.