Synonyms of impaled

impaled

verb

past tense of impale

as in stabbed

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object

impale a marshmallow or two on that stick and let's start toasting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stabbed
• pierced
• punctured
• jabbed
• picked
• stuck
• speared
• pecked
• skewered
• harpooned
• spitted
• transfixed
• gored
• spiked
• poked
• sliced
• lanced
• punched
• pinked
• ran through
• transpierced
• spindled
• perforated
• bayoneted
• pricked
• riddled
• knifed
• cut
• thrust
• pronged
• piked
• quilled
• gimleted
• dirked
• pinpricked
• poniarded

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of impaled

The involved vehicle struck a metal railing and was then impaled by it, according to a CHP incident log. — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

The person was also reportedly impaled by a tree branch, which first responders declined to remove during the transport process. — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026

Jerrod's fingers are cut off before he's impaled in front of a crowd, including a distraught Kitana. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 9 May 2026

The group was tracking a black rhino fitted with a GPS device when the rhino charged out of the brush and impaled Van Jaarsveld with its horn. — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 Apr. 2026

The black rhino, which weighed approximately 2,900 pounds, charged at van Jaarsveld and fatally impaled him. — Ryan Brennan april 27, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026

Lind — despite being stabbed in the eye and impaled with a samurai sword — managed to survive the attack. — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026

After first threatening to kill Hole, Barli instead jumps out of his fifth-floor balcony window, where he is impaled on an outdoor rotary clothes airer stationed in the garden below. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026

The few Alawite religious leaders who dared to remain in Aleppo and resist were captured, impaled on metal spikes, and displayed in public squares. — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026