Empale

Definition: Empale

Empale

Verb

1. Pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer".

Date "empale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonyms: Empale

Synonyms: impale (v), spike (v), transfix (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Punishment	Execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Empale

English words defined with "empale": Empaled, Empaling. (references)

Etymologies containing "empale": Empalement. (references)

Derivations
	Words beginning with "empale": empaled, empaler, empalers, empales. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-p"
	-1 letter: ample, maple.
	-2 letters: alee, alme, lame, lamp, leap, male, meal, pale, palm, peal, peel, pele, plea.
	-3 letters: ale, alp, amp, ape, eel, elm, eme, lam, lap, lea, lee, mae, map, mel, pal, pam, pea, pee.
	-4 letters: ae, al, am, el, em, la, ma, me, pa, pe.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-p"
	+1 letter: empaled, empaler, empales, empanel, emplace, emplane, example, exempla, premeal.
	+2 letters: empalers, empanels, emplaced, emplaces, emplaned, emplanes, empyreal, ensample, exampled, examples, exemplar, helpmate, palmette, placemen, preamble, preflame, resample, template.
	+3 letters: ampleness, blaspheme, champleve, empaneled, ensamples, ephemeral, epidermal, exemplars, exemplary, helpmates, impaneled, impearled, impleaded, lamperses, nameplate, palmettes, permeable, piecemeal, placement, preambles, resampled, resamples, someplace, supermale, templates, temptable.
	+4 letters: amplexuses, blasphemed, blasphemer, blasphemes, champleves, elecampane, empaneling, empanelled, employable, ephemerals, epidemical, extemporal, hemiplegia, impalement, impanelled, impeccable, megalopses, mispleaded, nameplates, palmettoes, pedimental, permillage, permutable, phenomenal, placements, planimeter, plasmagene, platemaker, polymerase, premedical, presumable, streetlamp, supermales, temperable, treponemal, unexampled.
	+5 letters: amplenesses, attemptable, blasphemers, blasphemies, compellable, compensable, complacence, contemplate, elecampanes, empanelling, emplacement, employables, ephemerally, epithelioma, esemplastic, exemplarily, exemplarity, hemiplegias, impalements, impeachable, impermeable, impregnable, mantelpiece, marketplace, melanophore, mesopelagic, milliampere, pamphleteer, penultimate, perambulate, performable, permanently, permillages, planimeters, plasmagenes, platemakers, plebeianism, polarimeter, polymerases, prematurely, premaxillae, premedieval, preterminal, prolegomena, reimplanted, replacement, sempiternal, streetlamps, sympetalies, temperately, temporalize, timepleaser.
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