Usually means: Piercing the body with stake.
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  1. impalement: Merriam-Webster
  2. impalement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impalement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. impalement: Vocabulary.com
  5. Impalement, impalement: Wordnik
  6. impalement: Wiktionary
  7. impalement: Dictionary.com
  8. Impalement (heraldry), Impalement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Impalement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. impalement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. impalement: Rhymezone
  12. Impalement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. impalement: FreeDictionary.org
  14. impalement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Impalement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. impalement: Legal dictionary

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See impale as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (impalement)

noun:  The act of torturing or executing someone by impaling them on a sharp stake.
noun:  (heraldry) The joining of two coats of arms on one shield.
noun:  A space fenced in, such as by palings, possibly in the form of an enclosure or cup.
noun:  (botany, obsolete) In the sense of an enclosure, the calyx of a flower. (In still older works, also spelt empalement.)

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