Definitions for impale

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impale im·pale

Spelling: [im-peyl]

IPA: /ɪmˈpeɪl/

Impale is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in impale (aeilmp).

Definitions for impale

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
2. to pierce with a sharpened stake thrust up through the body, as for torture or punishment.
3. to fix upon, or pierce through with, anything pointed.
4. to make helpless as if pierced through.
5. Archaic. to enclose with or as if with pales or stakes; fence in; hem in.
6. Heraldry. to marshal (two coats of arms, as the family arms of a husband and wife) on an escutcheon party per pale. (of a coat of arms) to be combined with (another coat of arms) in this way.

Origin of impale

1545-55; Medieval Latin impālāre, equivalent to Latin im- im-¹ + pāl(us) pale² + -ā- thematic

Examples for impale

It was not difficult for Mr. Davis to impale him upon this plea.

How soon you going to drop the pole set up to impale Winthrope?

Don't take my track, or you may impale me like a roast pig on a spit.

Nor would he do so if his hobby were to impale human beings.

When a company lives by the icon, it can, at the very least, impale itself on the icon.

Sir,—Allow me to impale Mr. Dexter on the horns of a dilemma.

Or wilt thou nail a man on a cross, or impale him on a stake?

These can be invasive, shift around while exercising and god forbid you do anything where you fall and impale yourself on it.

It squealed, shrill with triumph, and the horn swept up to impale him.

He allowed us to go on without ordering his men to impale us.