Thesaurus results for IMPALED

impaled

verb

past tense of impale

as in stabbed

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object impale a marshmallow or two on that stick and let's start toasting

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Recent Examples of impaled The vets also took X-rays, but since wood is hard to see on an X-ray, the professionals were still unsure how far the stick had impaled Sweets. —

Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026 Jerrod's fingers are cut off before he's impaled in front of a crowd, including a distraught Kitana. —

Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 9 May 2026 The group was tracking a black rhino fitted with a GPS device when the rhino charged out of the brush and impaled Van Jaarsveld with its horn. —

Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 Apr. 2026 The black rhino, which weighed approximately 2,900 pounds, charged at van Jaarsveld and fatally impaled him. —

Ryan Brennan april 27, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026 Lind — despite being stabbed in the eye and impaled with a samurai sword — managed to survive the attack. —

Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026 After first threatening to kill Hole, Barli instead jumps out of his fifth-floor balcony window, where he is impaled on an outdoor rotary clothes airer stationed in the garden below. —

K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026 The few Alawite religious leaders who dared to remain in Aleppo and resist were captured, impaled on metal spikes, and displayed in public squares. —

Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026 The Ghostface killer attacks them, leaving two dead, including Lucas, impaled on a sharp beer tap handle. —

Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Mar. 2026

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Arriving officers found an unresponsive man who had significant injuries consistent with being stabbed, Becchina said.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
What followed, Lane claimed, was a four-hour altercation in which Wilson choked and stabbed him multiple times in the chest and hand, before throwing him through a pair of sliding glass doors.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026