Usually means: Piercing the body with stake.
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  1. empalement: Collins English Dictionary
  2. empalement: Wordnik
  3. empalement: Wiktionary
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  5. Empalement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. empalement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Empalement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. empalement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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▸ noun:  Obsolete form of impalement. in particular in botany as a term for the calyx of a flower.

Similar:
impalement, foilage, pistillum, floriage, capitulum, corollet, stale, involucel, corol, capitulescence, more...

Opposite:
impaling, disembowelment, dissection

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Similar:
impalement, foilage, pistillum, floriage, capitulum, corollet, stale, involucel, corol, capitulescence, more...

Opposite:
impaling, disembowelment, dissection



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