0 past simple and past participle of impale --
1 to push a sharp object through something, especially the body of an animal or person: --
They have been unable to do so because, once again, they are impaled on a dogma, which is what rules such matters.
We are searching for convoluted methods of helping people off a hook on which they have impaled themselves.
It is impaled on it largely because of its left-wing and nationalist elements.
He has impaled himself deliberately on that hook; and we need to understand that fact.
He should remember that principles, like fences, have points and one of these days he will be well and truly impaled on one of them.
Our first knowledge was that the stern part was most firmly impaled.
She is still inexorably impaled on the crossover point of those twin searchlights which hold her fixed.
We read of it leaping over a precipice or being impaled on spikes.
