impalement 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.
impalement 近义词
等同于 torture
等同于 execution
更多impalement例句
- Follow me close; you might lose yourself in this pleasant labyrinth, and it is death, my friend—by impalement too!
- Kniaz Dimitri Shaferov expiated his real or imputed crimes by a slow death by impalement.
- But impalement as we now know it was preceded by dimidiation.
- The scene was well worthy seeing, though we must omit all description of the impalement, which our travellers refused to witness.
- This impalement is given with great force, and a wounded heron has been known to drive its bill right through a stout stick.