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impale
[ im-peyl ]
verb (used with object)
- 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 (two coats of arms, as the family arms of a husband and wife) on an escutcheon party per pale.
- (of a coat of arms) to be combined with (another coat of arms) in this way.
impale
/ ɪ³¾Ëˆ±è±ðɪ±ô /
verb
- often foll byon, upon, or with to pierce with a sharp instrument
they impaled his severed head on a spear
- archaic.to enclose with pales or fencing; fence in
- heraldry to charge (a shield) with two coats of arms placed side by side
Derived Forms
- ¾±³¾Ëˆ±è²¹±ô±ð³¾±ð²Ô³Ù, noun
- ¾±³¾Ëˆ±è²¹±ô±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ¾±³¾Â·±è²¹±ôİù noun
- ¾±³¾Â·±è²¹±ô±ðm±ð²Ô³Ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of impale1
Example Sentences
The pilot episode begins with an eerie chase scene, as a girl in nothing but a white dress runs through a snow-coated forest until falling into a pit that impales her with wooden spikes.
An Italian surfer died last week after being impaled by a swordfish in the waters of Masokut Island in Indonesia.
Tributes have been made to a surfer who died after reportedly being impaled by a swordfish in Indonesia.
And when a Labrador retriever owned by another company officer gulped down a bagel impaled with a toothpick, he said, most of the resulting $10,5000 surgical bill was covered as well.
Michigan and Wisconsin hold sturgeon spearing seasons each winter as well where anglers drill holes through lake ice and impale sturgeon as they swim past.
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