verb
- Cut or make a way through.
- usage: "the knife cut through the flesh"; "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest"
- synonyms: pierce
- Move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply.
- usage: "The cold pierced her bones"; "Her words pierced the students"
- synonyms: pierce
- Sound sharply or shrilly.
- usage: "The scream pierced the night"
- synonyms: pierce
- Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument.
- Make a hole into.
- usage: "The needle pierced her flesh"
- synonyms: pierce
adjective
- Having a hole cut through.
- usage: "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon"
- synonyms: perforated, perforate, punctured
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