impale
verb
[ ɪmˈpeɪl ]
• transfix or pierce with a sharp instrument.
• "his head was impaled on a pike and exhibited for all to see"
Similar:
stick,
skewer,
spear,
spike,
pin,
transfix,
pierce,
stab,
run through,
bayonet,
harpoon,
lance,
gore,
disembowel,
puncture,
perforate,
transpierce,
• 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"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘enclose with stakes or pales’): from French empaler or medieval Latin impalare, from Latin in- ‘in’ + palus ‘a stake’.
