Impale : (뾰족한 것으로) 찌르다, 꽂다, (사람/동물의 몸을)찌르다
Impalement : 꿰뚫음, 꼬챙이형, 꽂음
Vlad the Impaler : 블라드 더 임패럴(블라드 3세)
1)
to impale, means to pierce something with something that is long and pointed. it might go the whole way through or just into it
in medieval times, they used to go hunting for wild boar wild pigs and they would take lances and the idea was to impale the boar with the lances
in the battle, he was impaled by an arrow
he fell out of the window and impaled himself on a spike
the idea of to imaple, to push a sharp object through something particularly the body of an animal or a person
in the past, if you were an enemy of the state, you were found guilty of treas and you were executed and then they cut your head off and then your head was impalaed on a spike outside the Tower of London. it was pierced and hung up
the impalement of traitor's head was a common theme in the Middle ages
to pierce with something sharp
to skewer
to spike
to spear
to transfix
to stab
impaled on something
to impale, to stick something into something very often the whole way through
2)
to impale as well, very often has the idea of to torture or to kill by poking some sort of spike or wooden pole through something
the rabbit was impaled by the claws, by the talons of the eagle
the goat ran at me and I ended up being impaled on his sharp horms, that sound really painful
3)
we have a historical character called Vlad the Impaler
today Vlad the impaler of Vlad III is still a national hero in Rumania
Vlad the Impaler, he was Vlad sadfish, are all known as Vlad Dracula
I think his father was Vlad dracul
anyway, Vlad III or Vlad the Impaler, many people think that he was the origin of COunt Dracular as in the vampire
Vlad the Impaler used to catch his enemies ahd impale them on a stake so
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