pierce

Meaning

1. To puncture; to break through.
2. To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
3. to break or interrupt abruptly
4. To get to the heart or crux of (a matter).
5. To penetrate; to affect deeply.

stab

prick

stick in

make a hole

stick into

thrust into

make a hole in

make holes in

bore hole through

burst through

border upon

drill through

pass into

wage war

bore into

break asunder

cut to

give an injection

make an impression

operate on

penetrate into

pierce through

slice up

snip off

soak in

thirl

thrust in

bore a hole

bore through

push into

knock down walls

thrust violently

be true to

be pierced

lancinate

pain

cut asunder

abruptly stab

poke in

make to leak

stab someone

cut away

cut into

drill hole

flow out

nip off

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɪɹs/

From Middle English perce, from conjugated forms of Old French percier such as (jeo) pierce (“I pierce”), probably from Vulgar Latin *pertūsiō, from Latin pertūsus, past participle of pertundō (“thrust or bore through”), from per- (“through”) + tundō (“beat, pound”). Displaced native Old English þȳrlian (literally “to hole”).

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