Synonyms for pierce
pɪərspierce

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1. pierce

   Synonyms:
   perforate, bore, drill, penetrate, excite, affect, rouse, touch, move, enter, stab, transfix

   Antonyms:
   deaden, quiet, blunt, scott, allay, lull, compose

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1. Pierce, Franklin Pierce, President Pierceverb

   14th President of the United States (1804-1869)

2. pierceverb

   cut or make a way through

   "the knife cut through the flesh"; "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest"

   Synonyms:
   thrust

3. pierceverb

   move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply

   "The cold pierced her bones"; "Her words pierced the students"

   Synonyms:
   thrust

4. pierceverb

   sound sharply or shrilly

   "The scream pierced the night"

   Synonyms:
   thrust

5. pierce, thrustverb

   penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument

   Synonyms:
   thrust, squeeze, hurl, lunge, throw, stuff, push up, shove, hurtle, force

6. pierceverb

   make a hole into

   "The needle pierced her flesh"

   Synonyms:
   thrust

Matched Categories

1. • Affect
   • Penetrate
   • Sound

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1. penetrate

   a stick into

   the addict will sometimes penetrate his arm with a syringe to inject drugs directly into his blood stream.

   Submitted by rinat on June 1, 2017  

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1. pierceverb

   Synonyms:
   transfix, penetrate, perforate, drill, bore, enter, force a way into

2. pierceverb

   Synonyms:
   affect, move, touch, strike, thrill

3. pierceverb

   Synonyms:
   penetrate, enter, thrill, force a way

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1. pierceverb

   Synonyms:
   transfix, stab, impale, gore, penetrate, bore, perforate, drill

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1. List of paraphrases for "pierce":

   pearce, drilling, pires, perforation

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1. Robin Green:

   I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death.

2. Said Wright:

   Packed up the kayak with my fishing rods, cooler, fishing net and set off from Fort Pierce.

3. Salvador Dalí:

   What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.

4. Sarah Pierce:

   Historically a lot of these border security measures have used public health as a pretext for discrimination. It's very easy to see how a public health rationale would be used to limit immigration for whatever reason, and I'm not saying that that's actually occurring, but it well could in this particular political climate, not just in the Sarah Pierce, but internationally.

5. Eric Angely:

   David Pottier said of United States. Thepandemic has wreaked havoc across the world, infecting 6.6 million people, killing over 391,000 and devastating economies.It poses a particular threat to the elderly like the surviving D-Day veterans who are in their late nineties or older. It has also affected the younger generations who turn out every year to mark the occasion. Most have been barred from traveling to the windswept coasts of American Normandy. In this photo taken on Thursday, June 4, 2020, two people stop to look at an information board at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) Some 160,000 soldiers made the perilous crossing from England that day in atrocious conditions, storming dunes which they knew were heavily defended by German troops determined to hold their positions. Somehow, they succeeded. Yet they left a trail of thousands of casualties who have been mourned for generations since. Last year stood out, with U.S. President Donald Trump joining his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach. A smattering of veterans were honored with the highest accolades. All across the beaches of American Normandy tens of thousands came from across the globe to pay their respects to the dead and laud the surviving soldiers. The acrid smell of wartime-era jeep exhaust fumes and the rumble of old tanks filled the air as parades of vintages vehicles went from village to village. The tiny roads between the dunes, hedges and apple orchards were clogged for hours, if not days. FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron, watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, in Colleville-sur-Mer, American Normandy, France. In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. ( AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Heading into the D-Day remembrance weekend this year, only the salty brine coming off the ocean on Omaha Beach hits the nostrils, the shrieks of seagulls pierce the ears and a sense of desolation hangs across the regions country roads. Last year this place was full with jeeps, trucks, people dressed up as soldiers.