Edmundo prepared to impale the vampire with a stake.
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Impale
//ɪmˈpeɪl//
Synonyms for "impale" (92 found)
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56 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- набивам на кол verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- нанижа verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- нанизвам verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- пробода verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Catalan
1 entries- empalar verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Danish
2 entries- spidde verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- spidde verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Dutch
2 entries- doorboren verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- spietsen verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Finnish
3 entries- keihästää verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- seivästää verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- seivästää verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
French
2 entries- empaler verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- empaler verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
German
3 entries- aufspießen verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- erstechen verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- pfählen verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Greek
2 entries- ανασκολοπίζω verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- καρφώνω verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Hungarian
1 entries- karóba húz verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Icelandic
4 entries- reka í gegn verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- setja á nál verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- stinga á tein verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- stjaksetja verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Italian
1 entries- impalare verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Macedonian
3 entries- набива verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- набодува verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- набодува verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Māori
1 entries- kōhiku verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Old Norse
1 entries- leggja verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Polish
4 entries- nabijać na pal verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- nabić na pal verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- nadziać na pal verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- nadziewać na pal verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Portuguese
1 entries- empalar verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Russian
4 entries- посади́ть на́ кол verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- прока́лывать verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- проколо́ть verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- пронза́ть verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- nabiti na kolac verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- nabosti verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- probosti verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Spanish
4 entries- atravesar verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- empalar verb (put to death by piercing with a pale)
- empalar verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
- ensartar verb (pierce something with any long, pointed object)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
During the Big Scare, while everyone was afraid that the Exclusion Ultimatum meant the Martians wanted an interplanetary war, the Earth Governments would have been only too ready to hang, shoot, stab, gas, electrocute, freeze, burn, poison, impale and/or defenestrate the dastardly culprits responsible.
Source: tatoeba (11810255)
[T]he Tovvne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.
Source: wiktionary
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