transitive verb. To pierce with a sharp stake or point.

transitive verb. To torture or kill by impaling.

To fix upon a stake; drive or thrust a sharpened stake through: an ancient and Oriental mode of capital punishment.

Hence Figuratively, to render helpless as if pierced through or impaled: as, to impale a person upon his own argument or upon the horns of a dilemma.

To surround or inclose with or as with stakes, posts, or palisades.

In heraldry, to display side by side on one shield, separated palewise each from the other, as when the arms of husband and wife are represented together.

Hence — To place side by side as of similar importance and signification.

transitive verb. To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See empale.

transitive verb. To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.

transitive verb. To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.

verb. to pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.

verb. more generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.

verb. kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole

verb. pierce with a sharp stake or point

"Fleming, a three-time Grammy Award winner who specializes in opera and lieder, provided constructive criticism to the singers after each of their individual performances in the master class, which was organized by the Office for the Arts. The American artist challenged the four student performers-Bridget Haile '11, M.chael D. Cherella' 11, Francesca R.L. Reindel '11, and Sofia M. Selowsky' 12-to "get out of the comfort zone" and to "impale" audience members with their singing."

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