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Pierced   /pɪrst/   Listen
Pierced

adjective
1.
Having a hole cut through.  Synonyms: perforate, perforated, punctured.  "A perforated eardrum" , "A punctured balloon"


Pierce

verb
(past & past part. pierced; pres. part. piercing)
1.
Cut or make a way through.  "The path pierced the jungle" , "Light pierced through the forest"
2.
Move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply.  "Her words pierced the students"
3.
Sound sharply or shrilly.
4.
Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument.  Synonym: thrust.
5.
Make a hole into.



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"Pierced" Quotes from Famous Books



... Glum Gunn, grew hazy and distant, and the old time drew so near that he seemed to have waked into it out of a long dream. They were back in the old misery—a misery in which, however, his heart had not been pierced as now with the pangs of innocent creatures unable or unwilling to defend themselves from their natural guardian! It was long before he learned that for weeks Gunn was unable to hurt one of them; that his drinking, his late wound, and the blow Clare had given him, brought on ...
— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald
... glance that pierced through his specious protestations. "You wish the daughter of Nevers to die. If you have killed Lagardere, I have no ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... passions in check, but, although she had managed not to betray herself while in Miss Day's room, now as she stood alone in the brilliantly lighted corridor, she simply danced with rage. Her small hands were clenched until the nails pierced the flesh and her delicately colored face became livid ...
— A Sweet Girl Graduate • Mrs. L.T. Meade
... thick ilex and myrtle formed a tapering vista where the shadows lay misty blue and pale shafts of light pierced through fitfully. At the far end it ran out into an open space and a splash of sunshine. A marble Ganymede with lifted arms rose in the middle like a white flame. The girls were there, intent upon some commerce of their own, flashing hither ...
— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett
... of his men thrust out so close to the little girl that it seemed as if they already had pierced her. 'Listening, are you?' ...
— The Children of France • Ruth Royce


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