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
So, I visited a piercer who reopened it.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Still, when it comes to seeing her 14-year-old daughter, it’s better than her previous gig as a body piercer, she said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
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
A small round mouth, with a fine piercer on the right and left, is all that the powerful instrument reveals.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
