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Answer for the clue "Pierced: Var ", 7 letters:
empaled

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vb. (en-past of: empale )

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Empale \Em*pale"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empaled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Empaling .] [OF. empaler to palisade, pierce, F. empaler to punish by empalement; pref. em- (L. in) + OF. & F. pal a pale, stake. See Pale a stake, and cf. Impale .] [Written also impale .] ...

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Martin adds, what even the horrors of Oriental warfare will scarcely permit us to credit, that she was exposed by Sapor on a public scaffold to the brutal lusts of his soldiery, and afterwards empaled, iii.