Pierce Synonyms and Antonyms

pîrs
To penetrate with a sharp edge
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. cut
  2. gash
  3. incise
  4. thrust
  5. slash
  6. slit
Antonyms:
  1. sew-up
To pass into or through by overcoming resistance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. enter
  2. penetrate
  3. break
  4. perforate
  5. stab
  6. puncture
  7. go through
  8. go-into
  9. pass-through
  10. pass into
  11. bite
  12. bore
  13. break through
  14. broach
  15. cleave
  16. cut
  17. drill
  18. break-into
  19. gash
  20. gore
  21. hole
  22. impale
  23. lance
  24. lancinate
  25. probe
  26. intrude
  27. riddle
  28. slash
  29. spear
  30. spike
  31. stick
  32. sting
  33. transfix
  34. tunnel
  35. wound
To make a hole or other opening in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. breach
  2. break
  3. gap
  4. hole
  5. perforate
  6. puncture
14th President of the United States (1804-1869)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. franklin pierce
  2. President Pierce

Words Related to Pierce

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Pierce Sentence Examples

  • This time, she felt his fangs pierce her neck and jerked.

  • They have never been known to charge and pierce the bottom of ships with their weapons, as the swordfish does.

  • Numbers of rivers pierce or flow in wild gorges between its spurs.

  • Longfellow - which was built in1785-1786by General Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829), a soldier of the War of Independence, a representative in Congress from 1793 to 1807, and the grandfather of the poet; was given by Longfellow's sister, Mrs Anne Longfellow Pierce (1810-1901) to the Maine Historical Society; and contains interesting relics of the Wadsworth and Longfellow families, and especially of the poet himself.

  • The sea breeze seemed to pierce her skull and ruffle through her brain.

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