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Impaves vs Impales - What's the difference?

impaves | impales |

As verbs the difference between impaves and impales

is that impaves is third-person singular of impave while impales is third-person singular of impale.

impaves

English

Verb

(head)
  • (impave)

    • impave

    English

    Verb

    (impav)
  • (archaic, poetic) To pave.
    • Impaved with rude fidelity / Of art mosaic. — Wordsworth.
    (Webster 1913)

    impales

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (impale)

    • impale

    English

    Alternative forms

    * empale (obsolete)

    Verb

    (impal)
  • to pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
  • more generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.