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Definition of pierced : Penetrated; entered; perforated.

Synonyms:

cut, perforate

drilled, spiked, penetrated, stuck, pointed, bored, gouged, punctured, speared, through, punched, perforated, skewered, lanced, needled, poked

inserted, introduced, embedded, inset, insinuated, infiltrated, intruded, injected, interposed, intruding, lodged, implanted

Usage examples:

• In fact, the same afternoon she paid a visit to the old woman who kept a grocer's shop next door, and asked whether it would hurt very much to have her ears pierced. - "St. Peter's Umbrella", Kálmán Mikszáth.
• I was overcome by thankfulness and admiration of the noble boy, and the next instant the sight of his wan face, his wasted form, pierced me as with a knife- thrust. - "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist", Alexander Berkman.
• The blow that had pierced her had struck into a quivering center of life, so deep within her, that only something as deep as its terrible suffering could seem real. - "The Bent Twig", Dorothy Canfield.