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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "impalement" in a sentence

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    impalement


    1. that escape impalement upon the raven spire are mounted upon it the following day by the elder


    2. Impalement quickly turned to disembowelment as


    3. This was why, and how: the practice of rectal impalement was invented during the Stone Age


    4. But why would humans invent rectal impalement in the first place? How could have it happened?


    5. Modern Human tribes that never went out of Africa: still practice impalement to this very day


    6. That torture consisted of two methods, depending on the sex of the victim in question: impalement (men) and drowning (women)


    7. But are there not a thousand tortures by which a man may be made to suffer without society taking the least cognizance of them, or offering him even the insufficient means of vengeance, of which we have just spoken? Are there not crimes for which the impalement of the Turks, the augers of the Persians, the stake and the brand of the Iroquois Indians, are inadequate tortures, and which are unpunished by society? Answer me, do not these crimes exist?"


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    "impalement" definitions

    the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture