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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

empierce en · VERB

Etymology

From em- + pierce.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) To pierce through.
    • The weapon bright / Taking aduantage of his open iaw, / Ran through his mouth with so importune might, / That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw [...]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
empiercing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
empierces Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
empierced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
empierced Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

empiercement