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impale on
impale someone or something on something
to put someone or something on a pointed object and press down. The crowd had impaled an effigy of the dictator on a sharpened stick. The waves almost impaled me on a submerged tree branch.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Patrycja | | paht-RITS-yah | Polish |
Alison | | AL-i-sən (English), a-lee-SAWN (French) | English, French |
Jaqueline | | JAK-ə-leen (English), JAK-ə-lin (English) | English (Modern), Portuguese (Brazilian) |
Soroush | | - | Persian Mythology, Persian |
DobrosŁAw | | daw-BRAW-swahf | Polish |
Melete | | - | Greek Mythology |