intransitive verb. To cut or pass through with or as if with a sharp instrument; stab or penetrate.

intransitive verb. To make a hole or opening in; perforate.

intransitive verb. To make a way through.

intransitive verb. To sound sharply through.

intransitive verb. To succeed in penetrating (something) with the eyes or the intellect.

intransitive verb. To penetrate into or through something.

To thrust through with a sharp or pointed instrument; stab; prick.

To cut into or through; make a hole or opening in.

To penetrate; enter into or through; force a way into or through: as, to pierce the enemy's center.

To penetrate with pain, grief, or other emotion; wound or affect keenly; touch or move deeply.

Synonyms and Perforate, Transfix, etc. See penetrate.

To enter or penetrate; force a way.

intransitive verb. To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively.

transitive verb. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

transitive verb. To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through

transitive verb. Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply.

verb. to puncture; to break through

verb. to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry

verb. to break or interrupt abruptly

verb. cut or make a way through

verb. sound sharply or shrilly

verb. penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument

noun. 14th President of the United States (1804-1869)

verb. make a hole into

verb. move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply

"July 25, 2005 at 4: 08 pm tony pierce is a Great American, so I hesitate to contradict him."

affect  enter  perceive  

piercing  ピアス  

affect  chief executive  impress  move  president  

Bierce  Peirce  fierce  

afflict  blobby  car-driver  high-bridged  nontest  

abrade  affect  afflict  aggrieve  agonize  

pierced  pierces  piercing