Definitions for Pierce

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Pierce pierce

Spelling: [peers]

IPA: /pɪərs/

Pierce is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in Pierce (ceeipr).

Definitions for Pierce

noun

1. Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
2. John Robinson, 1910–2002, U.S. electrical engineer: helped develop communications satellites.
3. a male given name, form of Peter.

verb (used with object)

1. to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
2. to make a hole or opening in.
3. to bore into or through; tunnel.
4. to perforate.
5. to make (a hole, opening, etc.) by or as by boring or perforating.
6. to make a way or path into or through:
7. to penetrate with the eye or mind; see into or through:
8. to affect sharply with some sensation or emotion, as of cold, pain, or grief:
9. to sound sharply through (the air, stillness, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to force or make a way into or through something; penetrate:

Origin of Pierce

1250-1300; Middle English percen Old French perc(i)er Vulgar Latin *pertūsiāre, verbal derivative of Latin pertūsus, past participle of pertundere to bore a hole through, perforate, equivalen

Examples for Pierce

pierce BROSNAN The Irish actor and ex-James Bond—whose father was Scottish—is cool either way.

She had low-grade blood poisoning in her ear from the pin she used to pierce it.

I thought you were a hoot on Community as the lawyer for the estate of pierce.

pierce sounded genuinely anguished about the unintended consequences of the bill he supported.

At the least sound her hands burned and her eyes tried to pierce the darkness.

In the 1999 film starring pierce Brosnan, an art thief evades capture by hiding in plain sight.

His keenest inquiries had been unable to pierce the secret of her birth and station.

Dick, reckless of shell and bullets, tried to pierce the cloud with his eyes.

In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound.

No shaft that Percival was able to fashion had point enough to pierce it.