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  • adjective Pinned to something by piercing.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of impale.

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Examples

  • However, fallen trees remain impaled into homes, tangled in electrical wires and everywhere else imaginable.

    AMSET Bug Day 2005

  • However, fallen trees remain impaled into homes, tangled in electrical wires and everywhere else imaginable.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • His sword impaled one, but the weapon was wrenched aside as the leader flung the expendable one forward and raised his axe in both hands.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • His sword impaled one, but the weapon was wrenched aside as the leader flung the expendable one forward and raised his axe in both hands.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • His sword impaled one, but the weapon was wrenched aside as the leader flung the expendable one forward and raised his axe in both hands.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • Colvin, the Cubs 'baserunner at third, was struck by a piece of shattered bat ( "impaled" seems like too strong a term; "stabbed" is more accurate) as he scored.

    Tyler Colvin in stable condition after being impaled by bat 2010

  • He had trouble at first understanding her explanation, since his English vocabulary didn't include "impaled".

    Archive 2009-10-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • He had trouble at first understanding her explanation, since his English vocabulary didn't include "impaled".

    DBTL 38: The Artist Johnny Pez 2009

  • The former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader who a newspaper columnist once said "impaled" her with his "blowtorch eyes", has swopped his dramatically delivered pro-racial segregation speeches and is now earning a living dispensing hints on how not to be negative.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • In Germany in the good old days certain kinds of female criminals were "impaled," a punishment too grotesquely horrible for description, but likely enough considered by the simple German of the period conspicuously merciful.

    The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

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