Impalement [noun]

Definition of Impalement:

severe mental or physical pain

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Sentence/Example of Impalement:

Follow me close; you might lose yourself in this pleasant labyrinth, and it is death, my friend—by impalement too!

Kniaz Dimitri Shaferov expiated his real or imputed crimes by a slow death by impalement.

But impalement as we now know it was preceded by dimidiation.

The scene was well worthy seeing, though we must omit all description of the impalement, which our travellers refused to witness.

This impalement is given with great force, and a wounded heron has been known to drive its bill right through a stout stick.

The penalty of death appears to have been inflicted either by burning, impalement, dismemberment, or drowning.

No matter which horn of the dilemma Marshall selected, it was hard to see how his views could escape impalement.

Yet, what scientist allows the matter of sex to interfere with the impalement of his beetle?

This therefore became customary under the name of impalement, and the practice has ever since remained with us.

Impalement means marriage, and when the marriage is dissolved the impalement becomes meaningless, and should be discontinued.