The crowd had impaled an effigy of the dictator on a sharpened stick.
•The waves almost impaled me on a submerged tree branch.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
impale — UK [ɪmˈpeɪl] / US verb [transitive] Word forms impale : present tense I/you/we/they impale he/she/it impales present participle impaling past tense impaled past participle impaled to push a pointed object through someone or something … English dictionary
impale — im|pale [ımˈpeıl] v [T often passive] [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: empaler, from Medieval Latin impalare, from Latin palus pointed stick ] if someone or something is impaled, a sharp pointed object goes through them be impaled on sth ▪… … Dictionary of contemporary English
impale — im|pale [ ım peıl ] verb transitive to push a pointed object through someone or something … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
impale — [ɪmˈpeɪl] verb [T] to push a pointed object through someone or something … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
impale — verb (transitive often passive) to push a sharp pointed object through something or someone: Gregson fell to a horrible death, impaled on the railings below. impalement noun (U) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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