0 past simple and past participle of pierce --
1 to go into or through something, making a hole in it using a sharp point: --
These tubes had been pierced on each side with a needle to allow for air movement.
When fully recognized this filigree can be pierced and the pace of integration can be accelerated.
The postwar human rights movement pierced the veil of national sovereignty and elevated human rights as a matter of international import.
However, the use of modeled censers and some pierced ladle and scored censers was restricted to less observable, and thus potentially more private, venues.
Then he pierced her ears so that in a few days they became infected and smelled bad.
A small foramen pierced the bottom of this depression and opens on the postero-lateral face of the process.
Each wing is pierced by an antero-posterior canal which opens posteriorly at the level of the transverse fenestra.
A seed was regarded as germinated when the radicle had pierced the seed-covering structures.
