Reverse Dictionary: PIERCE

NOUNS
► IMPUNCTION making holes by pricking or piercing with a sharp-pointed instrument → 1712 obs.

VERBS
► ACCLOY to pierce, to stab → 1470
► BEAR to thrust, pierce, stab a person through the body, or his body through, with a spear, etc. → a1300 obs.
► BEGOUGE to stab, to pierce → 1953 Amer. dial.
► BURT to pierce, to gore → 1597 obs.
► DAB to pierce slightly, to stab → 1806 Sc.
► DAG to pierce or stab, with or as with a pointed weapon → a1400 obs.
► DIRL to pierce, to drill; to tingle, to thrill; to cause to vibrate by a blow, or thrill with the sensation of pain or pleasure; to scold → 1733 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FEATHER to decorate a person with the projecting feather of an arrow; hence, to pierce, to wound → 1415 obs.
► GRIDE to pierce with a weapon; to wound; to inflict a wound by piercing → 1400 obs.
► JAG to pierce with a sharp instrument; to stab → a1400 obs.
► LANCINATE to pierce, to tear → 1603
► LAUNCH to pierce, to wound; to cut, to slit; to make a wound by piercing → c1400 obs.
► OFSTING to kill by a thrust; to pierce, to gore, to stab to death → c893 obs.
► PICK to prick; to pierce → 1890 Amer. dial.
► PUNCT to prick, to pierce → 1548 obs.
► PUNGE to prick, to pierce → 1570 obs.
► PUNYE to prick, to pierce → 1488 Sc. obs.
► RIDDLE to pierce, to penetrate; to mangle → 1892 Eng. dial.
► RUT to cut, pierce, or thrust with a weapon → 1540 obs.
► STUG to stab, to pierce with a weapon → 1722 Sc.
► TANG to pierce, to prick → a1400 obs.
► THIRL to pierce, to drill, to perforate; to vibrate or cause to vibrate; to thrill; to shudder; to tingle → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► THRING to make way through something by pressure; to pierce, to penetrate; to burst out → a1300 obs.
► THROUGH-STING to stab or pierce through → 1000 obs.
► TO-PIERCE to pierce entirely → c1470 obs.