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• v  cut or make a way through
  The path pierced the jungle
  Light pierced through the forest
• v  move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply
  The cold pierced her bones
  Her words pierced the students
• v  sound sharply or shrilly
  The scream pierced the night
• v  penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
• v  make a hole into
  The needle pierced her flesh
• s  having a hole cut through
  pierced ears

• And while her big fat needle pierced him three or four times before it found blood, this stolid 60-year-old Eastern European block of a man had made not a sound.
• But as the procession came into view, turning out of the palace gates onto the public road, a shriek pierced the morning air: "Diana, my Diana!".
• I've had my upper thigh pierced through a bruise, thinking that it would look cool.

• pierce
• thrust
• perforated
• perforate
• punctured

News & Articles

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  COLUMBIA - Eight bullets pierced the air at the intersection of Tenth and Broadway Saturday, leaving the community stunned and on edge. "It's amazing how different things happened compared to what I assumed happened," witness Britney Moody said. "I thought I was hearing fireworks.
  June 20, 2013 - KOMU Columbia
• Mother says she did not host underage drinking party, was behind bars
  A Rochester mother said she could not have illegally pierced a girl's lip at an underage drinking party, because she was behind bars when the party happened.
  June 20, 2013 - WMUR New Hampshire
• The Surprising Lessons In Storytelling You Can Scratch Out Of “My Cat From Hell”
  The show that features a cat behaviorist called Jackson Galaxy and some unbalanced felines may or may not be your thing. But the show’s exec producer can haz some worthwhile insight into what makes good TV--reality or otherwise. You might call My Cat From Hell (Saturdays, 8 p.m.) Animal Planet’s answer to Dog Whisperer . The show stars Jackson Galaxy (yes, that’s right), a pierced, tattooed ...
  June 20, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Brad Garrett in Reuters Canada
  An online dating show seemed like a logical choice given that I'm in the midst of a midlife crisis and averse to pain, which makes getting my ear pierced out of the question,Garrett said. "And since I'm not picky about my choices, I hope...
• President Bush in United Press International
  The terrorists who drove the plane into Pentagon "pierced the rings of this building," Bush said, "but could not break the resolve of our American armed forces."
• Tony Blair in Independent
  Certainly, if we are a society that mandates parental consent before our daughters get their ears pierced, or even take a Tylenol tablet at school, I would think that there would be support both for parents to have to give consent and be informed... Sarah Palin http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF00-hkC4BFshN_bDZRhICNqNomLA RH Reality Check (blog) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/node/9064&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEiRaUQd79d2fBul_GTQtzkiV67Cg Jan 12, 2009 74474 100168 piercing Mr Brown smiled as Mr Blair said that no relationship at the top of any walk of life was easy least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight".