Impale Definition

ĭm-pāl
empaled, empales, empaling, impaled, impales, impaling
verb
impaled, impales, impaling
To pierce through with, or fix on, something pointed; transfix.
Webster's New World
To make helpless, as if fixed on a stake.
Impaled by her glance.
Webster's New World
To punish or torture by fixing on a stake.
Webster's New World
To join (two coats of arms) side by side on one shield.
Webster's New World
More generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
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Origin of Impale

  • Medieval Latin impālāre Latin in- in in–2 Latin pālus stake pag- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin impālāre, from Latin palus.

    From Wiktionary

Impale Sentence Examples

  • The appendages of the second pair are large and prehensile, as in scorpions, but are armed with spines, to impale and hold prey.

  • Rough Castle, near Falkirk, is very much smaller; it is remarkable for the astonishing strength of its turf-built and earthen ramparts and ravelins, and for a remarkable series of defensive pits, reminiscent of Caesar's lilia at Alesia, plainly intended to break an enemy's charge, and either provided with stakes to impale the assailant or covered over with hurdles or the like to deceive him.

  • In heraldry a "pale" is a band placed vertically in the centre of a shield, hence "in pale" or "to impale" is used of the marshalling of two coats side by side on a shield divided vertically.

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