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Antonyms for impalement
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : im-peyl |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpeɪl |
Definition of impalement
Origin :- 1590s, from French empalement, from empaler (see impale).
- As in torture : noun severe mental or physical pain
- As in execution : noun killing
- Since the marriage of Alroy, there had never been such a merry morn as the day of his impalement.
- Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli
- And he gave orders that he should be put to death by impalement next morning.
- Extract from : « The Kath Sarit Sgara » by Somadeva Bhatta
- Chiefest of all, the impalement of the old Raimondi on Marta's knife.
- Extract from : « A Likely Story » by William De Morgan
- But impalement as we now know it was preceded by dimidiation.
- Extract from : « A Complete Guide to Heraldry » by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
- Some are said to have survived their impalement as much as forty-eight hours.
- Extract from : « Herzegovina » by George Arbuthnot
- Kniaz Dimitri Shaferov expiated his real or imputed crimes by a slow death by impalement.
- Extract from : « The Rise of the Russian Empire » by Hector H. Munro
- To be found there was death—were I the highest in the nation—death by impalement, or some other form of lingering torment.
- Extract from : « The Induna's Wife » by Bertram Mitford
- It is a bold creature—often beats off the lion, or kills him by impalement on its long bayonet-like horns.
- Extract from : « The Young Yagers » by Mayne Reid
- Follow me close; you might lose yourself in this pleasant labyrinth, and it is death, my friend—by impalement too!
- Extract from : « Sarchedon » by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
- Have you not heard that the caliph has ordered the baths to be shut for three days, on pain of impalement?
- Extract from : « The Pacha of Many Tales » by Frederick Marryat
Synonyms for impalement
- ache
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- beheading
- capital punishment
- contract killing
- cruciation
- crucifixion
- decapitation
- distress
- dolor
- electrocution
- excruciation
- gassing
- guillotining
- hanging
- hit
- impalement
- laceration
- lethal injection
- martyrdom
- misery
- necktie party
- pang
- persecution
- punishment
- rack
- rub out
- shooting
- strangling
- strangulation
- suffering
- third degree
- torment
- tribulation
- twinge
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