impale
verb (used with object)
to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
was impaling
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past progressiveof impale.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She was attractive, and I told her so, and she began again:— "Harry Lothrop said, as he was impaling the half of a worm,— "'Redmond is a handsome fellow, is he not?'
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various
