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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unpierced en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + pierced.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) not pierced
    • When he was rushed back to the hospital two weeks ago the Sun-Times referred to the unpierced "veil of secrecy" that has surrounded him since his stroke in March. 2006 June 23, Michael Miner, “There Oughta Be a Law; Small Victories”, in Chicago Reader:
    • There was not one of these left standing unpierced by bullets. 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete: