Pierced or run through on a sharp point; fixed on a stake or sharp instrument.
Past tense and past participle of empale, formed with the -ed suffix.
Empaled appears in historical records describing execution methods and medieval torture, making it a word that carries the weight of dark history—its very specificity forces us to confront the precise brutality it describes.
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