Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - impale
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Impale
impale
transitive verb (~d; impaling) Etymology: Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French empaler, from Medieval Latin impalare, from Latin in- + palus stake — more at pole Date: 1605 1. to join (coats of arms) on a heraldic shield divided vertically by a pale 2. a. to pierce with or as if with something pointed; especially to torture or kill by fixing on a sharp stake b. to fix in an inescapable or helpless position • ~ment noun • ~r noun
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v.tr. 1 (foll. by on, upon, with) transfix or pierce with a sharp instrument. 2 Heraldry combine (two coats of arms) by placing them side by side on one shield separated by a vertical line down the middle. Derivatives impalement n. Etymology: F empaler or med.L impalare (as IN-(2), palus stake) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. прокалывать, протыкать, пронзать to impale oneself upon smth. —- напороться на что-л. to impale smb. with one's eyes —- пронзить кого-л. взглядом 2. ист. сажать на кол 3. редк. обносить частоколом, огораживать кольями 4. геральд. соединять два гербовых щита ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
v. 1) прокалывать, пронзать to impale oneself upon smth. - наколоться, напороться на что-л. 2) hist. сажать на кол (on) The cruel king used to impale his prisoners on sharp sticks and place them in public view to die. 3) rare обносить частоколом ...Англо-русский словарь
4.
(impales, impaling, impaled) To impale something on a pointed object means to cause the point to go into it or through it. Researchers observed one bird impale a rodent on a cactus... VERB: V n on n, also V n, V n with n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ v T often passive to push a sharp pointed object through something or someone (Gregson fell to a horrible death, impaled on the railings below.) - impalement n impalpable ~ adj formal 1 impossible to touch or feel physically (- opposite palpable (2)) 2 very difficult to understand ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1530, from M.L. impalare, from L. in- "in" + pallus "pole." Originally "to enclose with stakes, fence in," sense of "pierce with a pointed stake" first recorded 1613. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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