Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pierced
IPA transcription: [p'ɪɹst]
Pronunciations of pierced
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: pierced, perforated, perforate, punctured
    Meaning: having a hole cut through; "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon"
Usage examples
  • Let Edward yield to that, and though he has pierced us with many wounds, we will yet forgive him."
  • But it had pierced the pericardium, as best Feldman could guess, and it could be fatal at any moment.
  • The brave von Brederode fell pierced with wounds, and the day seemed lost, indeed, to the Lady of Holland.
  • Pierced to the heart, it was struggling with dreadful spasms whose aftershocks knocked Conseil off his feet.
  • After a time, I looked to right and left, and saw the intolerable blackness of the night, pierced by remote gleams of fire.
  • And on the evening of the 15th of August there pierced through the clouds the snowy, shining, serrated peaks of the Rockies.
  • Beneath their pierced, distended earlobes there dangled strings of beads made from bone. Generally these savages were naked.
  • Presently, with a click, a little square wicket that pierced the door was opened, and a woman's face peered out through the iron bars.
  • Such light as pierced the crowded boughs (Light scattered, scant and dim,) Passed through the fern that formed his couch And centred full on him.
  • He began striking out on all sides, but Avenant avoided his blows, and with his sword pierced him so many times that at last he fell to the ground.
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