Usually means: Pierce or stab with object.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. impale: Merriam-Webster
  2. impale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impale: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impale, impale: Wordnik
  7. impale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. impale: Wiktionary
  9. impale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. impale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. impale: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Impale, impale: Dictionary.com
  13. impale: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. impale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Impale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Impale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. impale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. impale: Rhymezone
  19. Impale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. impale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. impale: FreeDictionary.org
  22. impale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. impale: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. impale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impale: Legal dictionary

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  1. impale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. impale: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Impale: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See impaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
verb:  (transitive, heraldry) To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage).
verb:  (ambitransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To enclose or fence with stakes.

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