[ɪmˈpeɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- transfix or pierce with a sharp instrument
(e.g: his head was impaled on a pike and exhibited for all to see)

- display (a coat of arms) side by side with another on the same shield, separated by a vertical line
(e.g: the impaled arms of her husband and her father)


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Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘enclose with stakes or pales’): from French empaler or medieval Latin impalare, from Latin in- ‘in’ + palus ‘a stake’