51Թ

Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for

transpierce

[ trans-peers ]

verb (used with object)

transpierced, transpiercing.
  1. to pierce through; penetrate; pass through.


transpierce

/ ٰæԲˈɪə /

verb

  1. tr to pierce through
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

51Թ History and Origins

Origin of transpierce1

1585–95; trans- + pierce; compare French transpercer
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

To feel the new life flutter mystic wing; Like to a lark to feel one's soul upspring, Transpierce the very limit of the sky, And toss its challenge to Eternity!

From

Transpierce, trans-pērs′, v.t. to pierce through: to permeate.

From

Yet, one cry I, too, would drive up like a column erect, Marble to marble, from my heart to heaven, A monument of anguish to transpierce And overtop your vapoury complaints Expressed from feeble woes.

From

How do Thy clear, still eyes transpierce our souls, As gazing through them toward the Father-throne In a pathetical, full Deity, Serenely as the stars gaze through the air Straight on each other!

From

They do not buy jewels worth so many hundreds or tens—but transpierce the actual coin, and of them compose a necklace of whose value there can be no doubt, and whose fashion is not very variable.

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement