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Word Meanings - IMPIERCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.

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  • PIERCER
    1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
  • PENETRATE
    akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to
  • PIERCEL
    A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
  • PIERCE
    LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. Contuse, Parch, 1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed
  • PIERCEABLE
    That may be pierced.
  • PIERCED
    Penetrated; entered; perforated.
  • INTERPENETRATE
    To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
  • TRANSPIERCE
    To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
  • IMPIERCE
    To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.
  • EMPIERCE
    To pierce; to impierce. Spenser.
  • ENPIERCE
    To pierce. Shak.
  • IMPIERCEABLE
    Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. Spenser.
  • EAR-PIERCER
    The earwig.

 

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