PIERCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pierced mean? 

• PIERCED (adjective)
  The adjective PIERCED has 1 sense:

1. having a hole cut through

  Familiarity information: PIERCED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIERCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a hole cut through

Synonyms:

perforate; perforated; pierced; punctured

Context example:

a punctured balloon

Similar:

cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)

 Context examples 

Three broken ribs, one at least of which has pierced the lungs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was still quite early, and the coldest morning that I think I ever was abroad in—a chill that pierced into the marrow.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Pierced with small holes as in a sieve.

(Cribriform, NCI Dictionary)

I love an ash arrow pierced with cornel-wood for a roving shaft.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A man like him, in his situation! with a heart pierced, wounded, almost broken!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was pierced by a very small but very deep wound, which had divided the carotid artery.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He spoke often to me; but the sound of his voice pierced my ears like that of a water-mill, yet his words were articulate enough.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The innocent little peasant was unanimously sentenced to death, and was to be rolled into the water, in a barrel pierced full of holes.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)