Что (кто) такое Impale - определение

PIERCING OF HUMAN WITH A SHARP OBJECT

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Impale

·vt To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to Surround.

II. Impale ·vt To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.

III. Impale ·vt To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. ·see Empale.

impale

¦ verb

1. transfix or pierce with a sharp instrument.

2. Heraldry display (a coat of arms) side by side with another on the same shield, separated by a vertical line.

Derivatives

impalement noun

impaler noun

Origin

C16: from Fr. empaler or med. L. impalare, from L. in- 'in' + palus 'a stake'.

impale

(impales, impaling, impaled)

To impale something on a pointed object means to cause the point to go into it or through it.

Researchers observed one bird impale a rodent on a cactus...

VERB: V n on n, also V n, V n with n

Википедия

Impalement

Impalement, as a method of torture and execution, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by the complete or partial perforation of the torso. It was particularly used in response to "crimes against the state" and regarded across a number of cultures as a very harsh form of capital punishment and recorded in myth and art. Impalement was also used during times of war to suppress rebellions, punish traitors or collaborators, and punish breaches of military discipline.

Offences where impalement was occasionally employed included contempt for the state's responsibility for safe roads and trade routes by committing highway robbery or grave robbery, violating state policies or monopolies, or subverting standards for trade. Offenders have also been impaled for a variety of cultural, sexual, and religious reasons.

References to impalement in Babylonia and the Neo-Assyrian Empire are found as early as the 18th century BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impalement

Примеры произношения для Impale

1. take and impale himself on.

Extreme Fear _ Jeff Wise _ Talks at Google

2. Tame Impala, I like them,

Never Mind the Bollocks _ Steve Jones _ Talks at Google

3. and sleek impala and giraffes.

Carroll _ Talks at Google

4. with your quad and impale yourself.

Cradle of Storms Surf Photography _ Chris Burhard & Ben Weiland _ Talks at Google

5. it would actually impale its own brain.

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Примеры употребления для Impale

1. Once made, the spears were used to impale and immobilise their prey – the bush baby, which spends its days asleep inside hollowed–out tree branches and trunks.

2. The Russian version of the story makes fun of foreigners who eat their cutlet with a knife and fork, unlike Russians, who simply impale it on a fork and take bites out of it.

3. Other Hawaiian oddities include predatory caterpillars that ambush their prey, spiders that impale insects in mid–flight, and damselflies with nymphs that live on land and not in the water.

4. This collection‘s central concerns are childlessness, wretched but intense love affairs ("pockmarks in the walls spoke of her many attempts to impale me with her shoes"), bizarrely symbolic pets and mortality.

5. Would Christina Aguilera topple off her heels into one of the antique upturned urns at Dior or impale herself on one of the galleon–sized chandeliers littering the ground.