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Definition of: impale
(im·pāl′) v.t. ·paled, ·pal·ing
1. To fix upon a pale or sharp stake.
2. To torture or put to death by thrusting a sharp stake through the body.
3. To make helpless as if by fixing upon a stake; transfix: to impale someone with a glance.
4. Her. To place (two coats of arms) side by side on an escutcheon. Also spelled empale. [<OF empaler <LL impalare <in- in + palus a stake]
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