Definitions for pierced

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Spelling: [peerst]

IPA: /pɪərst/

Pierced is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in pierced (cdeeipr).

Definitions for pierced

adjective

1. punctured or perforated, as to form a decorative design:
2. (of the ear) having the lobe punctured, as for earrings.
3. (of an earring) made to be attached, as by a post or wire, through the hole in a pierced ear lobe.
4. Heraldry. (of a charge) open at the center to reveal the field:

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 pierced

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at pierce, -ed²

Examples for pierced

As unlucky as Gama was to have been hit, he was incredibly lucky that neither bullet had pierced his skull into his brain.

She fixed her eyes upon me with a look that pierced me to the heart; and yet it made me smile.

Your HR person is as likely to be as pierced as your barista.

But the air was pierced by an even more dangerous and unsettling sound—the sound of counter-revolution.

While in this position he fell, pierced through the body with a rifle bullet.

Instead of blonde and bubbly, the women tend to be tattoed and pierced.

The other is a man's, sun-burned, discoloured, and also pierced for an earring.

He states that they pierced a plank, an inch thick, with a bullet made of mercury.

He gin Submit a look that pierced clear to her heart (so they say).

She also commented on what might be her most distinguishing feature, her pierced nose.