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Definition: IMPALED |
IMPALEDImperative & past participle1. Of Impale |
Date "IMPALED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Impalement is an act of torture or execution whereby the victim is pierced by a long stake, through the sides, or even from rectum through the mouth. The stake would be usually planted in the ground, leaving the victim hanging to die from blood loss. Medieval tyrants like Vlad III Dracula and Ivan the Terrible were quite fond of dispatching undesirables in this way. It was also used as a systematic way of executing prisoners immediately after a battle. Impalement is considered a very cruel and painful death.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Impalement."
Crosswords: IMPALED |
| English words defined with "IMPALED": butcher bird ♦ Enfiled ♦ impale ♦ loggerhead shrike ♦ northern butcher bird ♦ stake. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "IMPALED": impaling gear. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "IMPALED": Impale. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon (The Abominable Dr. Phibes; writing credit: James Whiton; William Goldstein) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "IMPALED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 59.09% of the time. "IMPALED" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 59.09% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 37.88% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "IMPALED": fork-impaled, thorn-impaled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
impaled | 83 | drawing extreme impaled | 3 |
impaled nazarene | 31 | exposed impaled mom | 3 |
impaled woman | 15 | impaled sex | 3 |
impaled pregnant woman | 12 | death impaled | 3 |
cd cover impaled nazarene | 9 | impaled microphone stand | 2 |
illusion impaled | 7 | forest impaled moon northern | 2 |
impale impaled impalement | 4 | impaled microphone | 2 |
forest impaled | 4 | impaled microphone pregnant stand woman | 2 |
impaled pussy | 3 | impaled pregnant | 2 |
impaled microphone woman | 3 | girl impaled | 2 |
impaled microphone pregnant woman | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "IMPALED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 刺穿 (IMPALE, Impaling, Pierce, Pierced). (various references) | |
German | Spieß auf. (various references) | |
Manx | roight (run through). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impaleday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | transfixus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"IMPALED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imapred, impail, impailed, impal, impaler, impaved, implede, Omphale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "IMPALED" (pronounced i'mpā"ld) |
| 4 | -p ā" l d | paled. |
| 3 | -ā" l d | assailed, availed, bailed, curtailed, derailed, detailed, jailed, mailed, entailed, exhaled, failed, hailed, inhaled, nailed, prevailed, railed, regaled, sailed, scaled, tailed, trailed, unveiled, veiled, wailed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: implead. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-m-p" | |
-1 letter: aliped, dimple, elapid, impale, lamped, limped, mailed, medial, palmed, pleiad. | |
-2 letters: ailed, aimed, amide, ample, email, ideal, imped, impel, lamed, limed, limpa, maile, maple, medal, media, milpa, padle, paled, pedal, pilea, piled, plaid, plead, plied. | |
-3 letters: aide, alme, amid, amie, aped, dale, dame, damp, deal, deil, deli, dial, diel, dime, idea, idem, idle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-m-p" | |
+1 letter: impleads, misplead. | |
+2 letters: amplidyne, amplified, amplitude, diplomaed, diplomate, epidermal, impaneled, impearled, implanted, impleaded, misplaced, misplayed, mispleads, polyamide. | |
+3 letters: amplidynes, amplitudes, bipedalism, complained, diplomates, epidemical, epididymal, impanelled, impleading, implicated, maxilliped, misapplied, misplanned, misplanted, mispleaded, multipaned, palindrome, pedimental, polyamides, premedical, proclaimed, psalmodies. | |
+4 letters: bipedalisms, complicated, dimercaprol, diplomacies, endoplasmic, maladaptive, manipulated, maxillipeds, mispleading, palindromes, paramedical, pilgrimaged, polygamized, premedieval, reimplanted, spermicidal, unamplified. | |
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