1. Make a hole into
   "The needle pierced her flesh"
    
2. Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
   "The knife pierced her skin";
   - thrust
    
3. Move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply
   "The cold pierced her bones"; "Her words pierced the students"
    
4. Sound sharply or shrilly
   "The scream pierced the night"
    
5. Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
   "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest";
   - penetrate

1. 14th President of the United States (1804-1869)
   - Franklin Pierce, President Pierce

Derived forms: pierces, piercing, pierced

Type of: advance, affect, Chief Executive, come in, enter, get in, get into, go in, go into, go on, impress, march on, move, move into, move on, pass on, POTUS [US, informal], President, President of the United States, progress, sound, strike, United States President

Encyclopedia: Pierce, North Dakota