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How to pronounce impale in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms empale, spike, transfix
Type of pierce, thrust
Has types pin, spear
Derivation impalement


impale a shrimp on a skewer.
Type Words
Synonyms stake
Type of kill
Derivation impalement


the enemies were impaled and left to die.

Examples of impale

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There are bubbles and then there are bubbles that impale a nation's banking system.
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A micromanipulator is used to guide the needle to impale individual embryos.
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Diners impale chunks of bread on long forks and dunk them into a pot of molten cheese.
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The principal threatens to impale anyone who doesn't stay seated during a dull movie.
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Waterfowl dogs can impale themselves on submerged posts or tree debris.
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Dom, played by Vin Diesel, employs his set of wheels to impale a villain.
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Later that day, Evan dies when a fire escape ladder slides down and impale his right eye.
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One of those desk spikes that people used to impale their papers on?
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To make sure that a zombie stays down you need something that can pierce or impale its head.
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More examples
  • Transfix: pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"
  • Kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; "the enemies were impaled and left to die"
  • (Impaled (band)) Impaled is a currently active death metal / goregrind band from Oakland, California.
  • (Impaled (illusion)) Impaled is a classic stage illusion in which a performer appears to be impaled on or by a sword or pole. ...
  • (Impaling) Impalement is the driving of objects through the body, causing deep stabbing wounds. It can refer either to accidental events or to deliberate wounding used as a method of torture or execution. In stage magic, the illusion of impalement is employed to simulate the real thing.
  • To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake; more generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object
  • (IMPALED) In heraldy, describes a shield divided per "pale" to incorporate the arms of two different families, side by side.
  • To place two coats side by side on a single shield, as in certain marital arms where the husband's coat is placed on the dexter and the wife's on the sinister half of the shield.
  • To join two coats of arms palewise. (Also written empale.)