Synonyms of the word impale


IMPALEEMPALE - KILL - PIERCE - SPIKE - STAKE - THRUST - TRANSFIX

impale

  • v. to pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
  • v. more generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.

empale

  • v. Obsolete form of impale.
  • v. (transitive) To make pale.

kill

  • v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  • v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  • v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
  • v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
  • v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  • v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
  • v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  • n. The act of killing.
  • n. Specifically, the death blow.
  • n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  • n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
  • n. A kiln.

pierce

  • v. (transitive) to puncture; to break through.
  • v. (transitive) to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
  • v. (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly.
  • v. (figuratively) To penetrate; to affect deeply.

spike

  • n. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward/outward.
  • n. Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
  • n. An ear of corn or grain.
  • n. (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
  • n. (in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
  • n. A sharp peak in a graph.
  • n. The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
  • n. A long nail for storing papers and, by extension, the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles…
  • n. (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the…
  • n. (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
  • n. A surge in power.
  • n. (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
  • n. Spike lavender.
  • v. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
  • v. To set or furnish with spikes.
  • v. To fix on a spike.
  • v. To prevent or frustrate.
  • v. To increase sharply.
  • v. To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
  • v. To add a small amount of one substance to another.
  • v. (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight…
  • v. (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
  • v. (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public.
  • v. (football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or…

stake

  • n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven…
  • n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer,…
  • n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
  • n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
  • n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
  • n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths,…
  • n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical…
  • v. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
  • v. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
  • v. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
  • v. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business…

thrust

  • n. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
  • n. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.).
  • n. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
  • n. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
  • v. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
  • v. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
  • v. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
  • v. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
  • v. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

transfix

  • v. (transitive) To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
  • v. (transitive) To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
  • v. (transitive) To fix or impale.
  • n. (linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic…

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