empale

American

[em-peyl] / ɛmˈpeɪl /

verb (used with object)

empaled, empaling

impale.

empale British

/ ɪmˈpeɪl /

verb

a less common spelling of impale

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Other Word Forms

empalement noun
empaler noun

Example Sentences

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Outside of France, this is sometimes represented by an empaled dragon from which issue a number of little dragons flying away.

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I thought that I should once have been empaled alive on account of a griffin.

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There at least he would be safe from the hard, inquisitive eyes which empaled him.

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"Well, it wasn't right for her to say it," said Anne, promptly deciding upon which horn of this dilemma to empale herself.

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Her glowing imagery fell upon the bristling points of his close phalanx of arguments, as gorgeous tropical garlands caught and empaled by bayonets until they faded.

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