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Definition of pierced:
- Penetrated; entered; perforated.
Synonyms:
- perforated (part of speech: verb)
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inserted (part of speech: verb)
- intruding,
- embedded,
- penetrated,
- insinuated,
- inserted,
- injected,
- injected,
- infiltrated,
- interposed,
- infiltrated,
- implanted,
- lodged,
- intruded,
- insinuated,
- lodged,
- embedded,
- introduced,
- penetrated,
- inserted,
- inset,
- through,
- implanted
Usage examples:
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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.