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impalement

/im-peyl/US // ɪmˈpeɪl //UK // (ɪmˈpeɪl) //

刺伤,刺穿,穿刺,打击

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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

  • 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.