EMPALE

v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.

2.
v.

To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh.

3.
v.

To inclose; to surround. See Impale.

4.
v.

To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

5.
v.

Same as Impale.

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