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.
See also: on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Patrycjapaht-RITS-yahPolish
AlisonAL-i-sən (English), a-lee-SAWN (French)English, French
JaquelineJAK-ə-leen (English), JAK-ə-lin (English)English (Modern), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Soroush-Persian Mythology, Persian
DobrosŁAwdaw-BRAW-swahfPolish
Melete-Greek Mythology