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Pierced

adjective

Having a hole cut through. Synonyms: perforate, perforated, punctured. "A perforated eardrum" , "A punctured balloon"

Pierce

verb

(past & past part. pierced; pres. part. piercing)

Cut or make a way through. "The path pierced the jungle" , "Light pierced through the forest"

Move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply. "Her words pierced the students"

Sound sharply or shrilly.

Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument. Synonym: thrust.

Make a hole into.

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"Pierced" Quotes from Famous Books

... iniquitous slave-driver, and for being sheltered from the sun and wind. The Castle has three towers at three of its corners, but not rising much higher than the upper terrace walls. The outer walls are about twelve or fifteen feet high, and as usual pierced with holes for musketry. I did not see any mounted ordnance. Within is a fine court yard, and there is a detached breast-work of defence over the entrance. It is very comfortable in many of its apartments, affording a most effectual ...

— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... mind are hard to trace and are often obscure even to the eye of science; but every day those changes make or mar our joy. Susan Stoddard looked for a long minute up into the vivid face bending over hers, while her spirit, even as Agatha's had done, pierced the hedge which separated them, and comprehended something of the goodness in the other's soul. Finally she laid her other hand over Agatha's, enclosing it in a strong clasp. Then, with a certain pathetic pride ...

— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger

... expectancy that had fallen upon the house was pierced by a low hissing sound, for Anthony Cobbens had risen to his feet and advanced to the footlights to make the speech of introduction. As the malignant greeting reached his ears, his face paled and his fingers tightened ...

— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... about his wicked work barefoot; and it was the blood from his own veins and not from those of his victim which made the trail we have followed with so much interest. Do you forget those broken beads;—how he kicked them about and stamped upon them in his fury? One of them pierced the ball of his foot, and that so sharply that it not only spurted blood but kept on bleeding with every step he took. Otherwise, the trail would have been lost after his ...

— The Golden Slipper • Anna Katharine Green

... attitude of scorn; and a loud laugh arose, during which the light, as gradually growing weaker, danced and glimmered upon the apparition of the aged knight, and then disappeared. Everard's life-blood ran cold to his heart—"Had he been of human mould," he thought, "the bullet must have pierced him—but I have neither will nor power to ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

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