pierce
verb (used with object)
to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
piercer
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a word derived from
pierce.
Example Sentences
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But when the failing company has been a piercer of more than 100 million ears, nobody can stick to courtroom decorum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Judge Amjad Nawaz said the body-modification industry was unregulated and McCarthy was only registered as a tattooist and cosmetic piercer.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2019
A self-described “shaman, artist, master piercer and body modifier,” Mr. Musafar was “an astronaut of inner spaces,” the photographer Charles Gatewood once said, part of a “sub-sub-subculture” that crept into public view in the 1970s.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2018
The owner said Forrester, or Ranson, West Virginia, was a body piercer and an “icon” in the local rock music scene.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
The surgical trepan is a different word altogether, and belongs to Greco-Lat. trypanon, an auger, piercer.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
