Word Meanings - IMPIERCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.

Related words: (words related to IMPIERCE)

• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• PENETRATE
  akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to
• PIERCEL
  A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
• PIERCE
  LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. Contuse, Parch, 1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed
• PIERCEABLE
  That may be pierced.
• PIERCED
  Penetrated; entered; perforated.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• TRANSPIERCE
  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
• IMPIERCE
  To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.
• EMPIERCE
  To pierce; to impierce. Spenser.
• ENPIERCE
  To pierce. Shak.
• IMPIERCEABLE
  Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. Spenser.
• EAR-PIERCER
  The earwig.