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impale
vt. 刺穿,使绝望,钉住 刺穿,使绝望,钉住 impale v 1: pierce with a sharp stake or point; " impale a shrimp on a skewer" [ synonym: { transfix}, { impale}, { empale}, { spike}] 2: kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; " the enemies were impaled and left to die" [ synonym: { impale}, { stake}] Impale \ Im* pale"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Impaled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Impaling}.] [ See 2d { Empale}.] 1. To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See { Empale}. [ 1913 Webster] Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround. [ 1913 Webster] Impale him with your weapons round about. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Her.) To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention. [ 1913 Webster] Ordered the admission of St. Patrick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster]
Empale \ Em* pale"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Empaled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Empaling}.] [ OF. empaler to palisade, pierce, F. empaler to punish by empalement; pref. em- ( L. in) OF. & F. pal a pale, stake. See { Pale} a stake, and cf. { Impale}.] [ Written also { impale}.] 1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. [ 1913 Webster] All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. -- Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To inclose; to surround. See { Impale}. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Her.) Same as { Impale}. [ 1913 Webster] 73 Moby Thesaurus words for " impale": agonize, auger, bayonet, bite, bloody, bore, broach, claw, convulse, countersink, crucify, dagger, dirk, dismember, draw and quarter, drill, empierce, excruciate, fix, gore, gouge, gouge out, grill, harrow, hole, honeycomb, keelhaul, kill by inches, knife, lacerate, lance, lancinate, macerate, martyr, martyrize, needle, penetrate, perforate, picket, pierce, pink, plunge in, poniard, prick, punch, puncture, punish, rack, ream, ream out, riddle, rip, run through, saber, savage, scarify, skewer, spear, spike, spit, stab, stick, stiletto, sword, tap, tar and feather, torment, torture, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, wring
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