impalement
/im-peyl/US // ɪmˈpeɪl //UK // (ɪmˈpeɪl) //
刺伤,刺穿,穿刺,打击
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v.有主动词 verb
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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.
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