Word.ws English Dictionary

empierce

empierce verb: to pierce through.

Verb

empierce (third-person singular simple present empierces, present participle empiercing, simple past and past participle empierced)

  1. (archaic) To pierce through.
    • The weapon bright / Taking aduantage of his open iaw, / Ran through his mouth with so importune might, / That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of empierce

third-person singular presentempierces
present participleempiercing
past participleempierced
pastempierced

Origin of empierce

From em- + pierce.

Words formed from empierce

Questions about empierce

What does empierce mean?
Empierce means to pierce through.
What part of speech is empierce?
Empierce is a verb.
What is the past tense of empierce?
The past tense of empierce is empierced.

Words near empierce in the dictionary

  1. empidid
  2. empidids
  3. empids
  4. empiecement
  5. empiecements
  6. empierce
  7. empierced
  8. empiercement
  9. empierces
  10. empiercing
  11. empiernado

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: empierce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “empierce.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/empierce. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.