impaling in English

verb

1

pierce or transfix with a sharp instrument.

his head was impaled on a pike and exhibited for all to see

synonyms: stick, skewer, spear, spike, transfix, harpoon, pierce, stab, run through, transpierce

2

display (a coat of arms) side by side with another on the same shield, separated by a vertical line.

the impaled arms of her husband and her father

verb

stick, skewer, spear, spike, transfix, harpoon, pierce, stab, run through, transpierce
spike, empale, transfix
stake

Use "impaling" in a sentence

1. Butcherbird - large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns

2. Many nations in ancient times executed certain criminals by impaling them on a stake or a pole.

3. Synonyms for Bayoneting include stabbing, knifing, piercing, spearing, impaling, cutting, slashing, spiking, sticking and goring

4. Cadaverous' minions swarmed Spider-Man, leaving him powerless to stop Cadaverous from impaling Mary Jane and throwing her off the bridge where the fight was taking place

5. Concern for all things lowly was almost an article of faith for the Wedgwood cousins, who taught young Darwin to euthanize earthworms in brine before impaling them on a fishhook.

6. Dani Is ready for a painful Bastinado! After the most painful and incredibly nasty impaling, Danis ankles are shackled together, behind the post, to her wrists, while her entire body rests on her impaled crotch

7. Dimensions: Arms Quarterly 1& 3 three fleur-de-lys within a Bordure bezanty (Lordship of Aubigny) 2 & 3 A fess checky within a Bordure engrailed (Stuart) on an escutcheon of pretence a saltire engrailed between 4 roses (Lennox) impaling quarterly 1 on a bend between 6 cross crosslets an escutcheon charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double tressure