transpierce

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
11

Definition of transpierce

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To pierce through; to pass through.
    “Now, while the angry trumpet sounds alarms, / And dying groans transpierce the wounded air […]”
    “[F]oorthvvith her eyes bred her eye-ſore, the firſt vvhite vvhereon their tranſpiercing arrovves ſtuck, being the breathleſſe corps of Leander: vvith the ſodaine contemplation of this piteous ſpectacle of her loue, ſodden to haddocks meate, her ſorrovve could not chooſe but be indefinite, […]”
    “Giue her th' Eoan brightnesse, / Wing'd with that subtill lightnesse, / That doth trans-pierce the Ayre; […]”
    “The upblaze of reflected heat burns my cheeks and eyes. Her body swims before me, spangled and transpierced by shafts of light caught in my tears. I croak that I am sorry for having invaded her hut.”

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Etymology

From trans- + pierce.

Anagrams of transpierce

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