| VERB | contact | pierce | cut or make a way through |
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| emotion | pierce | move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | |
| perception | pierce | sound sharply or shrilly | |
| contact | pierce, thrust | penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | |
| contact | pierce | make a hole into | |
| NOUN | person | Pierce, Franklin Pierce, President Pierce | 14th President of the United States (1804-1869) |
| Sounds | pih'rs | |
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| Rhymes | Bierce ... Peirce: 4 rhymes with ihrs... | |
| Meaning | 14th President of the United States (1804-1869). | |
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| Synonyms | Franklin Pierce, President Pierce | |
| Instance of | President of the United States, United States President, President, Chief Executive | The person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government |
| Spanish | Franklin Pierce, Pierce, Presidente Pierce | |
| Catalan | Franklin Pierce, Pierce | |
| Meaning | cut or make a way through. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
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| Narrower | pick, break up | attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate | Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance |
| Spanish | perforar | |
| Catalan | fer un forat, foradar, perforar, traucar, travessar, trepar | |
| Meaning | Move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
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| Broader | affect, impress, move, strike | Have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon |
| Meaning | sound sharply or shrilly. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The scream pierced the night" | |
| Broader | sound | give ... / give off a certain sound or sounds |
| Meaning | penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | thrust | |
| Narrower | center punch | make a small hole in something as a guide for a drill |
| gore | wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument | |
| horn, tusk | stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | |
| lance | pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight | |
| peg | pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into | |
| stick | pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed | |
| stick | pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument | |
| transfix, impale, empale, spike | pierce with a sharp stake or point | |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate | Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance |
| Spanish | clavar, hincar | |
| Catalan | clavar | |
| Meaning | make a hole into. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The needle pierced her flesh" | |
| Entails | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
| Entailed by | impale, stake | kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole |
| Narrower | bite | penetrate or cut, as with a knife |
| poke | make a hole by poking | |
| prickle, prick | make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | |
| punch, perforate | make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | |
| puncture | pierce with a pointed object | |
| riddle | pierce with many holes | |
| sting, bite, prick | deliver a sting to | |
| tap | pierce in order to draw a liquid / liquid from | |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate | Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance |
| Spanish | agujerear, horadar, perforar | |
| Catalan | fer un forat, foradar, perforar | |
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