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PIERCED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a hole cut through
Example:
a punctured balloon
Synonyms:
perforate; perforated; pierced; punctured
Classified under:
Similar:
cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pierce
Context examples:
One of these ears is a woman’s, small, finely formed, and pierced for an earring.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The lobes of their ears, hanging ragged and bloody, showed that they had been pierced for some ornaments which their captors had torn out.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By the side of the box was its cover, pierced with holes here and there.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
My! for a poet, delicately attuned and all the rest of it, you can make unlovely noises. My ear-drums are pierced. You outwhistle— Orpheus.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When we overlaid the radio and optical images, we could see straight away that the fast radio burst pierced the halo of this coincident foreground galaxy and, for the first time, we had a direct way of investigating the otherwise invisible matter surrounding this galaxy, said coauthor Cherie Day, a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo, ESO)
He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Meanwhile, as Jose, whose arm was pierced by a broken bamboo, insists upon returning, I send this letter back in his charge, and only hope that it may eventually come to hand.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Indeed, it might have been serious, for the skin of her throat was pierced.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Have you ever observed that his ears are pierced for earrings?”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
