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empalar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • impale verb To pierce something through with a long, pointed object.

Senses

empalar is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • run through (transitive, idiomatic) To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.

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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