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Another word for pierce

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Verb

  1. To penetrate with a sharp edge

    See also:

    help

    enter

  2. To make a hole or other opening in

    See also:

    open

  3. To pass into or through by overcoming resistance

    See also:

    enter

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Another word for pierce

Verb
  1. See also:

    penetrate

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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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