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EMPALE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does empale mean?
• EMPALE (verb)
The verb EMPALE has 1 sense:
1. pierce with a sharp stake or point
Familiarity information: EMPALE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pierce with a sharp stake or point
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
empale; impale; spike; transfix
Context example:
impale a shrimp on a skewer
Hypernyms (to "empale" is one way to...):
pierce; thrust (penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "empale"):
pin (pierce with a pin)
spear (pierce with a spear)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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