Usually means: Piercing or penetrating with sharp object.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. impaling: Merriam-Webster
  2. impaling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. impaling: Vocabulary.com
  4. impaling: Wordnik
  5. impaling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. impaling: Wiktionary
  7. Impaling, impaling: Dictionary.com
  8. impaling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Impaling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Impaling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Impaling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. impaling: FreeDictionary.org
  13. impaling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impaling: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impaling)

▸ noun:  The act of something being impaled.

Similar:
spike, stake, empale, transfix, impalation, impinging, infliction, impact, pertusion, impactment, more...

Opposite:
unimpaling, freeing, releasing, dislodging

Types:
beheading, decapitation, impalement, crucifixion, gibbeting, more...



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Similar:
spike, stake, empale, transfix, impalation, impinging, infliction, impact, pertusion, impactment, more...

Opposite:
unimpaling, freeing, releasing, dislodging

Types:
beheading, decapitation, impalement, crucifixion, gibbeting, more...



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