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All impalement synonyms

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noun impalement

  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
  • torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
  • misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
  • hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
  • hanging — the way in which a thing hangs.
  • crucifixion — Crucifixion is a way of killing people which was common in the Roman Empire, in which they were tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
  • shooting — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
  • punishment — the act of punishing.
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • gassing — an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.
  • decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
  • laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
  • martyrdom — the condition, sufferings, or death of a martyr.
  • agony — Agony is great physical or mental pain.
  • dolor — sorrow; grief.
  • twinge — a sudden, sharp pain: On damp days, he's often bothered by a twinge of rheumatism.
  • pang — a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
  • affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
  • ache — If you ache or a part of your body aches, you feel a steady, fairly strong pain.
  • anguish — Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
  • rack — the neck portion of mutton, pork, or veal.
  • tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
  • killing — the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
  • electrocution — The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
  • guillotining — Present participle of guillotine.
  • excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
  • cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
  • capital punishment — Capital punishment is punishment which involves the legal killing of a person who has committed a serious crime such as murder.
  • rub out — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • lethal injection — dose of deadly chemical into a vein
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
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