Definition of Pierce

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Pierce

To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship.

Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery.

To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively.

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Pierce Quotations

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador Dali

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.
Britney Spears

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
Isaac Babel

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.
Jeremy Northam

I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.
George Duke

Pierce Translations

pierce in French is perforage
pierce in German is durchbohren
pierce in Latin is percutio (percussum), foro
pierce in Spanish is horadar, agujerear, guinchar
pierce in Swedish is genombryta, genomborra

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