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View synonyms for transpierce

transpierce

[ trans-peers ]

verb (used with object)

, trans·pierced, trans·pierc·ing.
  1. to pierce through; penetrate; pass through.


transpierce

/ trænsˈpɪəs /

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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of transpierce1

1585–95; trans- + pierce; compare French transpercer
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Example Sentences

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!

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

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!

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.

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.

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