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Synonyms for pierce
pɪərspierce

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.7 / 3 votes

  1. pierce

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

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

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Editors Contribution5.0 / 1 vote

  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  

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 2 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pierceverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "pierce":

    pearce, drilling, pires, perforation

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How to use pierce in a sentence?

  1. George Santayana:

    Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

  2. Pramod Giri:

    Fortunately, the rod did not pierce any major blood vessels in the brain.

  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. Christine Pride:

    Bana's experiences and message transcend the headlines and pierce through the political noise and debates to remind us of the human cost of war and displacement.

  5. Pierce College:

    When I attempted to hand out copies of the Constitution that day, my only intention was to get students thinking about our founding principles and to inspire discussion of liberty and free speech, i had no idea I would be called upon to defend those very ideals against Pierce’s unconstitutional campus policies.


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