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War of the Twins;
• (transfix)- to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc,
( ); The assistants part, transfix, and roast the rest: — The
Iliad;
• to pierce through with or as if with a pointed weapon; impale, ( );
• (impale)- to pierce with a sharpened stake thrust up through the body, as
for torture or punishment, ( ); Then grasshoppers were
caught, impaled, and dropped into a pool. — Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished
A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure;
• (empale)- to pierce with a sharp stake or point; "My quills these rascals
shall empale, and ease thy torments without fail.” — A Hundred Fables of La
Fontaine;
auditory perception, hear, strident, dulcet
grating = raspy = harsh ~ raucous = strident = shrill : clarion : clangor = clank :
stentorian : sonorous
• (grate)- (of a sound or noise) harsh, discordant, or rasping; The atrocious
name grated harshly on my ear, too. — The Innocents Abroad;
• a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace,
furnace, or stove;
• (raspy)- harsh; grating, ( ); He drew a more serious expression, leaned
in closer, and when he spoke, it was in a raspy, confidential voice. — The
Thrill of Victory;
• easily annoyed; irritable;
• (harsh)- ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect, ( ; ); The
fingers played upon these as upon a guitar, drawing forth a very low, harsh,
and disagreeable tone. — The Story of Ida Pfeiffer;
• (raucous)- harsh; strident; grating, ( ; ); Her voice had become
almost raucous, and a faint dull red strangely discolored and altered her face.
— In the Wilderness;
• (strident)- making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking, ( ;
; ); I was depicted as strident-voiced ... belligerent ... waving my
arms wildly. — Tramping on Life;
• (shrill)- high-pitched and piercing in sound quality, ( ; ; ;
); A shrill, agonized scream reverberated back into the tunnel from
just beyond its end. — The Gates of Thorbardin;
• (clarion)- shrill, trumpetlike sound, (