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
He was identified by friends and customers as Gunn’s husband, James Maldonado, a piercer there.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
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 25-year-old body piercer from Chelmsford has first-hand experience of the issue.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2015
She had but one eye, but that was a piercer, and got her three husbands.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
