seivästää — meaning in English

English meaning

• gore noun Blood, especially clotted or thickened blood from a wound, or graphic depictions of violence.
• impale verb To pierce something through with a long, pointed object.
• skewer noun A thin metal or wooden rod used to hold pieces of food together while cooking.

Senses

seivästää is used for these senses in English:

• gore (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with a horn or tusk.
• impale (transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
• impale (ambitransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
• skewer To impale on a skewer.

gore — full definition

1. noun Blood, especially clotted or thickened blood from a wound, or graphic depictions of violence.
2. verb To wound someone by piercing them with a horn or tusk.
3. noun A triangular piece of fabric or land, such as a panel sewn into a skirt or sail to add width.

impale — full definition

1. verb To pierce something through with a long, pointed object.
2. verb Historically, to kill someone by driving a stake through their body.

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