skewered

as inspike
as intransfix
as inimpale

Synonyms for skewered

verb pierce

Antonyms for skewered

Word Origin & History

1670s, variant of dialectal skiver (1660s), perhaps from a Scandinavian source, cf. Old Norse skifa "a cut, slice" (of bread, etc.), Swedish skifer "a slate," which are related to shiver (n.1) "small piece."

Example Sentences for skewered

If M. le Marquis should offer himself to be skewered, as he no doubt will.

Soames skewered the document on to a number of other papers and hung up his hat.

I have been skewered, and you've been nursing me, my pretty maid.

Freddy sliced off a throat-plugging lump of beef and skewered it on his fork.

Barely had it done so when it was skewered to the boards by the fork of Captain Tollward.

The fish they have caught are skewered on bamboo and roasted.

When this was completed, he skewered it upon some green twigs, and began toasting it.

I have been skewered up in a hole ever since I was flung ashore.

The last to die was skewered on iron hooks and cut to pieces alive.

Was you ever hung for sheep stealing, or skewered for house breaking?