impalation

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English

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Etymology

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From impale +‎ -ation.

Noun

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impalation (uncountable)

  1. impalement
    • 2009 August 23, Dennis Lim, “Death Lives a Fourth Time to Ply His Trade”, in New York Times[1]:
      In the first film, a woman fixing herself a stiff vodka is felled by a kitchen explosion and a knife in the chest; in the second, an attempt to microwave leftovers, foiled by a stray refrigerator magnet, leads to impalation by fire-escape ladder.

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