| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To wrap.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To regard. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To perforate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To enclose. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To confine. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To prick or stab. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To encircle, environ or gird. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To check or curb.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Present participle conjugation of the verb impale.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (impale) | 1. Pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer".[Wordnet]. 2. Kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; "the enemies were impaled and left to die".[Wordnet]. 3. To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.[Websters]. 4. To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.[Websters]. 5. To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: impaling, impaled, impales, impaler, impalers, impalingly and impaledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being surrounding.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being enveloping. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being penetrating or piercing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being boring.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "IMPALING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Specialty Definition: impale
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Satire | IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. This was a common mode of punishment among many of the nations of antiquity, and is still in high favor in China and other parts of Asia. Down to the beginning of the fifteenth century it was widely employed in "churching" heretics and schismatics. Wolecraft calls it the "stoole of repentynge," and among the common people it was jocularly known as "riding the one legged horse." Ludwig Salzmann informs us that in Thibet impalement is considered the most appropriate punishment for crimes against religion; and although in China it is sometimes awarded for secular offences, it is most frequently adjudged in cases of sacrilege. To the person in actual experience of impalement it must be a matter of minor importance by what kind of civil or religious dissent he was made acquainted with its discomforts; but doubtless he would feel a certain satisfaction if able to contemplate himself in the character of a weather-cock on the spire of the True Church. Source: Devil's Dictionary | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To fix on a stake; to put to death by fixing on an upright sharp stake. [See Empale.]. | 2: [Verb] To inclose with stakes, posts or palisades.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] more generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object. (references) | 2: [Verb] to pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. (references) | |
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Specialty Expressions: IMPALING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Impaling gear | Biology & Biotechnology | Any form of gear by means of which a fish is impaled on a sharp shaft. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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