impalation
nounEtymology From impale + -ation.
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impalement
- In the first film, a woman fixing herself a stiff vodka is felled by a kitchen explosion and a knife in the chest; in the second, an attempt to microwave leftovers, foiled by a stray refrigerator magnet, leads to impalation by fire-escape ladder.2009 August 23, Dennis Lim, “Death Lives a Fourth Time to Ply His Trade”, in New York Times: