Word Finder - pierce

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To puncture; to break through

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The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash.

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To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry

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Can you believe he pierced his tongue?

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To break or interrupt abruptly

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A scream pierced the silence.

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To get to the heart or crux of (a matter).

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to pierce a mystery

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To penetrate; to affect deeply.

This time, she felt his fangs pierce her neck and jerked.

They have never been known to charge and pierce the bottom of ships with their weapons, as the swordfish does.

Numbers of rivers pierce or flow in wild gorges between its spurs.

Longfellow - which was built in1785-1786by General Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829), a soldier of the War of Independence, a representative in Congress from 1793 to 1807, and the grandfather of the poet; was given by Longfellow's sister, Mrs Anne Longfellow Pierce (1810-1901) to the Maine Historical Society; and contains interesting relics of the Wadsworth and Longfellow families, and especially of the poet himself.

The sea breeze seemed to pierce her skull and ruffle through her brain.

The tip of the proboscis is armed with a complicated series of chitinous teeth and rasps, by means of which the fly is enabled to pierce the skin of its victim; as usual in Diptera the organ is closed on the upper side by the labrum, or upper lip, and contains the hypopharynx or common outlet of the paired salivary glands, which are situated in the abdomen.

Firdousi accepted the challenge, and the three poets having previously agreed upon three rhyming words to which a fourth could not be found in the Persian language, 'Ansari began "Thy beauty eclipses the light of the sun"; Farrakhi added "The rose with thy cheek would comparison shun"; 'Asjadi continued "Thy glances pierce through the mailed warrior's johsun"; 1 and Firdousi, without a moment's hesitation, completed the quatrain "Like the lance of fierce Giv in his fight with Poshun."

Soon after the outbreak of the war with Mexico, in 1846, Pierce enlisted as a private at Concord, but soon (in February 1847) became colonel of the Ninth Regiment (which joined General Winfield Scott at Pueblo on the 6th of August 1847), and later (March, 1847) became a brigadier-general of volunteers.

In 1850 Pierce became president of a convention assembled at Concord to revise the constitution of his state, and used his influence to secure the removal of those provisions of the constitution of 1792 which declared that only Protestants should be eligible for higher state offices.

It's simply not possible to pierce this veil.

The bite, however, of any spider, strong enough to pierce the skin, may give rise to a certain amount of local inflammation and pain depending principally upon the amount of poison injected.

The basin thus presents interesting problems. The existence of wide valleys where the small upper waters of the Cherwell, Evenlode and Coln now flow, the occurrence of waterborne deposits in their beds from the northwest of England and from Wales, and the fact that the Thames, like its lower southern tributaries which pierce the North Downs, has been able to maintain a deep valley through the chalk elevation at Goring, are considered to point to the former existence of a much larger river, in the system of which were included the upper waters of the present Severn, Dee and other rivers of the west.

Pierce Brosnan could return as James Bond despite saying he had quit as the role of the suave spy.

If you 're looking to wear a timepiece just like Pierce Brosnan as 007, this is the most common.

Pierce the squash 6 times with the tines of a large fork.

The mole 's long canine teeth are sharp and pierce the hard outer skeleton of insect prey.

Some neighboring cities include Palm City, Florida Ridge, Fort Pierce and Palm Bay.

The case battle rages on, although Pierce Marshall passed away in June, 2006.

In 2001, Radcliffe appeared for the first time on film with Pierce Brosnan in The Tailor of Panama.

In 2005, when Pierce Brosnan had finished his stint as James Bond in the popular movie series, it was rumored that Clive Owen would be the actor to replace him.

Pierce Marshall, was the sole heir of his estimated $1.6 billion dollar fortune.

Pierce Marshall, Anna Nicole Smith and her son Daniel have died.

Dr. John Borsch, Jr. made improvements upon Benjamin Franklin/Samuel Pierce's bifocal lenses by making them thinner and more attractive.

Crampons have spikes that pierce the snow or ice and allow the hiker to walk on frozen ground.

Although seemingly safe because it does not pierce the skin, henna tattoos using black henna, a paste that contains parahenylenediamine, can actually be dangerous when absorbed into the skin of some people.

Use a long, sharp chef's knife with the blade pointed toward the head, pierce the lobster's head about an inch or inch and a half below its eyes, in the center of its body.

Being so centrally located with so many of Florida's largest bustling industries nearby makes Fort Pierce a prime location for Fort Pierce web design experts to set up shop and grow a very successful business.

The following businesses are currently the top professional firms or individuals that offer web design in Fort Pierce.

J-Net Solutions was founded by Jonathan Smith and Brandon Smith of Fort Pierce.

His acceptance of the nomination, however, earned him the enmity of the southern Democrats, who prevented his appointment by Pierce as secretary of state and as minister to France in 1853.

See Judah P. Benjamin, by Pierce Butler (Philadelphia, 1907, with a good bibliography).

In this, as in all forms of neuralgia, there are certain localities where the pain is more intense, these "painful points," as they are called, being for the most part in those places where the branches of the nerves emerge from bony canals or pierce the fascia to ramify in the skin.

Amongst the loose tissue of the leaf numerous transparent threads are shown; these are the mycelial threads or spawn of the fungus; wherever they touch the leaf-cells they pierce or break down the tissue, and so set up decomposition, as indicated by the darker shading.

The germinating spores are not only able to pierce the leaves and stems of the potato plant, and so gain an entry to its interior through the epidermis, but they are also able to pierce the skin of the tuber, especially in young examples.

Among the most surprising features of cave scenery are the vertical shafts that pierce through all levels, from the uppermost galleries, or even from the sink-holes, down to the lowest floor.

President Pierce offered him the position of minister to Spain, but he declined it.

Pierce learned in the summer of 1860 that there was gold in Idaho.

Besides the Bokovoi Khrebet several other short subsidiary ranges branch off from the main range at acute angles, lifting up high montane glens between them; for instance, the two ranges in Svanetia, which divide, the one the river (glen) Ingur from the river (glen) Tskhenis-Tskhali, and the other the river (glen) TskhenisTskhali from the rivers (glens) Lechkhum and Racha.Down all these glens glacier streams descend, until they find an opportunity to pierce through the flanking ranges, which they do in deep and picturesque gorges, and then race down the northern slopes of the mountains to enter the Terek or the Kuban, or down the southern versant to join the Rion or the Kura.

In the Democratic convention at Baltimore, in 1852, Marcy was a prominent candidate for the presidential nomination, and from 1853 to 1857 he was secretary of state in the cabinet of President Pierce.

It is by means of the hypostome that ticks pierce the integument and firmly adhere to the host whose blood they suck for food.

Poles are chiefly in Milwaukee, Manitowoc and Portage counties, Belgians and Dutch in Brown and Door counties, German Swiss in Green, Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Buffalo and Pierce counties, and Bohemians in Kewaunee county, where they form almost 50% of the population.

From this the blood passes into two lateral vessels which pierce the coelomic septum (s.), the right vessel proceeding on the anterior side of the oesophagus, as shown in fig.

In 1848 he actively supported Martin van Buren, the Free Soil candidate, for the presidency, and in 1852 he supported Franklin Pierce, but soon afterwards helped to organize the new Republican party, and presided at its preliminary convention at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in February 1856.

There are also found in both regions numerous masses of igneous rocks, both plutonic and volcanic, in some places of considerable extent, which pierce through and overflow the earlier formations.

There are two ancient burying-grounds; the oldest, on Park Street, dates from about 1642 and contains the graves of ancestors of four presidents - Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Franklin Pierce and Garfield - and a granite obelisk to the memory of Loammi Baldwin (1744-1807).

Upon impact, a shaped charge that can pierce light armor is detonated.

Society's massive bulk will undoubtedly be shocked - short, sharp surges will pierce the delicate skin of the moral majority.

Dirty salwar kameez flap from open doors and gaping windows; dark eyes pierce the sunlight from faces hidden by black burkas.

But the rough husk was not ill to pierce, and only added gusto to the kernel.

The earth would drop from beneath his feet and the sun pierce his soul.