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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Em·pale v. t.  To make pale. [Obs.]
    No bloodless malady empales their face.   --G. Fletcher.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Em·pale, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empaled p. pr. & vb. n. Empaling.]  [Written also impale.]
 1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale.
    All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise.   --Sir W. Raleigh.
 2. To inclose; to surround. See Impale.
 3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
 4. Her. Same as Impale.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 empale
      v : pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a
          skewer" [syn: transfix, impale, spike]