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empale

[em-peyl]

verb (used with object)

empaled, empaling 
  1. impale.



empale

/ ɪmˈpeɪl /

verb

  1. a less common spelling of impale

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • empalement noun
  • empaler noun
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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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Then, caught between two fires, we shall perish; if not in battle, empaled on stakes.

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The first who would excite a tumult is empaled; and all is tranquil.

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"Well," said Yebor, shaking his bald pate, "we must empale Zadig for having thought contemptuously of griffins, and the other party for having spoken disrespectfully of rabbits."

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They empale their prey on locust thorns and on the spines of other trees and bushes; and I have known a barbed-wire fence to be decorated with the remains of their victims.

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