Definition of impales Impales
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What does impales mean?
Part of speech
🔤- impales, verb, present, 3rd person singular of impale (infinitive).
WordNet
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| impale - kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; "the enemies were impaled and left to die" | ||
| stake | ||
| kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" | ||
| pierce make a hole into; "The needle pierced her flesh" | ||
| impale - pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer" | ||
| transfix, empale, spike | ||
| pierce, thrust make a hole into; "The needle pierced her flesh" | ||
| pin immobilize a piece | ||
| spear pierce with a spear; "spear fish" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- impale (v. t.)
To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. - impale (v. t.)
To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround. - impale (v. t.)
To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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impale
To pierce with a pale.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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impale
im-pāl′, v.t. to fence in with stakes: to shut in: to put to death by spitting on a stake.—n. Impale′ment, an enclosed space: (her.) the marshalling side by side of two escutcheons combined in one. [Fr. empaler—L. in, in, palus, a stake.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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impale
In heraldry, to arrange two coats of arms side by side in one shield divided per pale. It is usual thus to exhibit the conjoined coats of husband and wife, the husband’s arms occupying the dexter, or right side, and the wife’s the sinister, or left side, of the escutcheon.
Part of speech
🔤- impale, verb, present, 1st person singular of impale (infinitive).
- impale, verb (infinitive).
