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pierced

adjective as in cleft

adjective as in punched

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One of the bullets brushed his spine and another pierced his bladder, leaving him with a permanent catheter.

"He died before the ambulance arrived. I was told he was very unlucky, because a piece of shrapnel pierced his heart," she says, breaking down.

From BBC

I got my ear pierced there drunkenly once upon a time.

ADF’s first big win was in a 2014 case in which it pierced the armor of Lemon by getting the court to agree that public prayer was allowed before City Council meetings in Greece, New York.

From Slate

The unnamed group’s symbol — described in the memo and confirmed to The Times by five sources in the department — is a skull with blood-red eyes, pierced by a jagged lightning bolt.

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

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