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pierce

noun

1 Pierce

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

synonyms: Franklin Pierce, President Pierce.

verb

1 pierce

Cut or make a way through.

Roget 830: cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain, produce pain, create pain, inflict pain etc. 828; pain, hurt, wound.    pinch, ... show more

Roget 260: open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge; fly open.    perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine etc. ... show more

Roget 649: be hurtful etc. adj.; cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil etc. 619; damnify, endamage, hurt, ... show more

Roget 385: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, ... show more

Roget 378: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain etc. n.; suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, ... show more

Roget 824: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, ... show more

2 pierce

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

3 pierce

Sound sharply or shrilly.

4 pierce

Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument.

synonym: thrust.

5 pierce

Make a hole into.


adjective

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; ... show more

Moby thesaurus: abrade, affect, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, auger, barb the dart, bark, bayonet, benumb, bite, blemish, bloody, bore, break, broach, bruise, burn ... show more.

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