Synonyms for pierced
pɪərstpierced

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1. pierced, perforated, perforate, puncturedadjective

   having a hole cut through

   "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon"

   Synonyms:
   perforated, perforate, punctured

   Antonyms:
   uncut

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1. piercedadjective

   Synonyms:
   perforated, penetrated

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1. List of paraphrases for "pierced":

   drilled, perforated, punctured

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1. Olga Brouman:

   She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

2. Saint Augustine, Confessions:

   My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

3. Tretyakov Gallery:

   As a result of the blows the thick glass ... was smashed, serious damage was done to the painting. The canvas was pierced in three places in the central part of the work which depicts the figure of the tsarevich (the tsar's son).

4. Lucy Alibar:

   I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it ,but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

5. Andy Levin:

   As he walked about the Capitol in a rumpled suit, almost always with a plain white shirt and pedestrian tie, carrying bulging files with the occasional paper flying away, Carl was the very picture of sober purpose and rectitude. In truth, he wasn’t unfun, in fact, he often pierced tense situations with self-deprecating humor, and he privately shared incisive observations about others with staff and colleagues.