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pierced

adjective as in cleft

adjective as in punched

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By 140,000 to 120,000 years ago, people made clothing from animal skins and began to decorate themselves with pierced marine shell beads.

By 140,000-120,000 years ago, people made clothing from animal skins and began to decorate themselves with pierced marine shell beads.

The baby was wrapped in a garment decorated with over 60 pierced shell beads and three pendants.

Your HR person is as likely to be as pierced as your barista.

She also commented on what might be her most distinguishing feature, her pierced nose.

As unlucky as Gama was to have been hit, he was incredibly lucky that neither bullet had pierced his skull into his brain.

The blade pierced his liver and diaphragm, missing his heart and aorta by a fraction of an inch.

Instead of blonde and bubbly, the women tend to be tattoed and pierced.

As the bright glow of a little cascade of sparks pierced the darkness, a voice in our rear called sharply: "Hands up!"

The blood rushed in a hot tide into the girl's pale wet face, and yet she shivered as if an arrow had pierced her heart.

An Irish sergeant, on a march, being attacked by a dog, pierced the animal with his halbert.

And again another scripture saith, "They shall look on him whom they pierced."

His face and head was covered with a full mask of thin white rubber, pierced by two slots for eyeholes.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pierced, such as: broken, cloven, cracked, crenelated, parted, and perforated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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