spindled

verb

past tense of spindle
as in impaled

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spindled
  1. impaled
  2. stabbed
  3. speared
  4. pecked
  5. skewered
  6. punctured
  7. jabbed
  8. gored
Verb
  • Or even impaled; a character could survive in specific scenarios.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Neighbors say deer could potentially be impaled, and there’s also the threat of raw sewage backing up into adjacent houses.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of impaled
Verb
  • Police have arrested a 27-year-old former NYPD cop and city substitute school aide for the murder of Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez, who was stabbed to death during a run along the Brooklyn waterfront, multiple police sources said Saturday.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Prosecutors say the teen stabbed a 16-year-old boy in the upper chest with a 4-inch kitchen knife, seriously injuring the victim.
    — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of stabbed
Verb
  • Try not to squeal like a 5-year-old when the foot-tall sparkler speared into the sundae is lit.
    — Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The Young Bucks went for a BTE Trigger, but Cope accidentally speared Cage while trying to break it up.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of speared
Verb
  • In the climactic scene, Hitchcock forced Hedren to deal with live birds for the filming, instead of the mechanical ones that were initially proposed, and she is really being pecked and attacked in the scene.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Pelicans swooped overhead and night herons, with spiky yellow feathers flying from their heads, goofily pecked the grass for insects.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
Definition of pecked
Verb
  • Masters of the Universe was a bomb for Amazon MGM Studios this summer, while the new Matchbox movie — made with Skydance and on Apple TV+ today, was skewered by critics.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Early 2020s prestige television skewered the rich and unscrupulous.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of skewered
Verb
  • This is punctured by a wailing refrain from Lyons, whose runs serve as a continual anchor to the jazz tradition throughout his time with Taylor.
    — Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026
  • State Fire Marshal Mariana Ruiz-Temple said the ammonia tank was found and did not appear to be punctured or leaking.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of punctured
Verb
  • Workers have been increasingly jabbed while on the job as needle-style medications — more specifically GLP-1s — have risen in popularity.
    — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu jabbed back against the prevailing narrative yesterday, saying she was never invited to participate in the WNBA’s 3-point contest this weekend.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of jabbed
Verb
  • Although the book includes a disclaimer that all its characters, apart from a brief appearance by Belmonte, are fictional, its protagonist is transparently based on Manolete, who had been fatally gored in 1947.
    — Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
  • He had been gored by a rogue elephant and claimed to have shot 53,000 crocodiles.
    — Stanley Stewart, Air Mail, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of gored
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“Spindled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spindled. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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