Definition of "pierces" [pierces]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pierce. (verb)

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• "Even as the pain pierces my chest and my tears splash upon his brow, the joy is there, the love is there, keeping my hand pressed upon his back and under his cheek, pulling him to me, ever closer, his gurgles and sighs and the sweet smell of his skin a balm for the pain."
• "He had hardly uttered these words, when the full-blown peal of a trumpet, louder in a tenfold degree than the strains of music they had before heard, was now sounded in the front of the temple, piercing through the murmur of the waterfall, as a Damascus blade penetrates the armour, and assailing the ears of the hearers, as the sword pierces the flesh of him who wears the harness."
• "The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Iran's spiritual leader, inspects the troops and then his message to the U.S. -- a formation designed as a sword pierces a Star of David, the American flag and swastika."