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1. (v.t.) impale
to pierce or fix with something pointed.
2. impale
to pierce with a sharpened stake thrust up through the body.
3. impale
to make helpless as if pierced through.
4. impale
to combine (coats of arms) on a shield with a pale dividing vertically.
Etymology: (1545–55; < ML impālāre)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) transfix, impale, empale, spike
pierce with a sharp stake or point
"impale a shrimp on a skewer"
2. (verb) impale, stake
kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
"the enemies were impaled and left to die"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) impale
to pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale
2. (verb) impale
to inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround
3. (verb) impale
to join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention
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Sense: to fix on, or pierce with, a long pointed object such as a spear etc.
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 Afrikaans: deurboor |
 Arabic: يَرفَعُ على الخازوق |
 Bulgarian: пробождам |
 Brazilian: empalar |
 Czech: napíchnout |
 German: aufspießen |
 Danish: spidde |
 Greek: διατρυπώ, καρφώνω, παλουκ |
 Spanish: empalar; atravesar |
 Estonian: läbi torkama |
 Farsi: به صلابه کشیدن؛ سوراخ کرد |
 Finnish: lävistää |
 French: empaler (sur) |
 Hebrew: לִנעוֹץ |
 Hindi: छेदना |
 Croatian: nabiti na kolac |
 Hungarian: karóba húz |
 Indonesian: menikamkan |
 Icelandic: rekaí gegn, stinga á tein |
 Italian: impalare; infilzare |
 Japanese: 突き刺す |
 Korean: 찌르다 |
 Lithuanian: pasmeigti |
 Latvian: caurdurt (aršķēpu u. tml. |
 Malay: menikam |
 Dutch: spietsen |
 Norwegian: spidde |
 Polish: nadziać (na) |
 Persian: به صلابه کشیدن؛ سوراخ کرد |
 Pashto: سوري كول |
 Portuguese: trespassar |
 Romanian: a trage în ţeapă |
 Russian: пронзать |
 Slovak: napichnúť; prepichnúť |
 Slovenian: nabosti |
 Serbian: nabosti |
 Swedish: spetsa, nagla fast |
 Thai: เสียบ; เสียบทะลุ |
 Turkish: saplamak |
 Taiwanese: 釘住，刺穿 |
 Ukrainian: проколювати, простромлюва |
 Urdu: کسی نکیلی چیز سے چھیدنا |
 Vietnamese: đâm qua |
 Chinese: 钉住，刺穿 |
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