Crossword-Solution: IMPALEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Impalement | n. | The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled. |
| Impalement | n. | An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed. |
| Impalement | n. | That which hedges in; inclosure. |
| Impalement | n. | The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “IMPALEMENT”
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| Enclosure with stakes | 1 answer |
| Result of a good shot with a spear gun | 1 answer |
| Act of piercing through with a sharp object | 1 answer |
| Vampire film's denouement, perhaps | 1 answer |
| the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture | 1 answer |
| CAPITAL punishment | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with IMPALEMENT (5)
Prowse mentions the history of a case of impalement in a man of thirty-four, who, coming down a hay-stack, alighted on the handle of a pitchfork which struck him in the middle of the scrotum, and passed up between the skin and fascia to the 10th rib.
Beckett records a case of impalement in a woman of forty-five who, while attempting to obtain water from a hogshead, fell with one limb inside the cistern, striking a projecting stave three inches wide and 1/2 inch thick.
Howe reports a case of impalement with recovery in a girl of fifteen who slid down a hay-stack, striking a hay-hook which penetrated her perineum and passed into her body, emerging two inches below the umbilicus and one inch to the right of the median line.
Whilst Mohammed Ali Pasha occupied the province he forbade "scarification" under pain of impalement, but it was resumed the moment he left Al-Asir.
Fronting a creature that would vainly assail him, and temporarily escape impalement by bounding and springing, dodging and backing, now here now there, like a dangling bob-cherry, his military gorge rose with a sickness of disgust.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–2009).