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Impale   /ɪmpˈeɪl/   Listen
Impale

verb
(past & past part. impaled; pres. part. impaling)
1.
Pierce with a sharp stake or point.  Synonyms: empale, spike, transfix.
2.
Kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole.  Synonym: stake.



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"Impale" Quotes from Famous Books



... the others: "Look at him! He draws and presents that card as though it were a sword at his enemy's throat! I hope he won't impale her upon it." ...
— Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Or Helping The Dormitory Fund • Alice Emerson

... of blood; if he did not rip open pregnant women, like Caesar Borgia, Duke of Valentinois; if he did not scourge women on the breasts, testibusque viros, like Ferdinand of Toledo; if he did not break on the wheel alive, burn alive, boil alive, flay alive, crucify, impale, and quarter, blame him not, the fault was not his; the age obstinately refuses to allow it. He has done all that was humanly or inhumanly possible. Given the nineteenth century, a century of gentleness,—of decadence, say the papists and friends of arbitrary power,—Louis ...
— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo

... what horrible impiety art thou committing! what, ravishing the wife of my bosom!—Take him away; ganch him[5], impale him, rid the world of such a ...
— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden

... falls like a sigh On chalet low and chateau high; And the far cataract's voice comes nigh, Where no man hears; And spectral peaks impale ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson

... with the mate in the long-boat some distance up the river Peiho, a rushing, turbid stream at the mouth of which the Chinese had fixed a very chevaux-de-frise of spikes, upon which they had fondly hoped our men-of-war would impale themselves, forgetting that the depth of water scarcely permitted the approach of a shallow gunboat. We were returning to the ship with a fair wind, and on top of the fierce rush of the river, when our helmsman ...
— The Honour of the Flag • W. Clark Russell


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