Antonyms for spear
spɪərspear

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1. spear, lance, shaftnoun

   a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon

   Synonyms:
   gig, light beam, beam, dig, shaft, prick, gibe, beam of light, ray, slam, calamus, cock, tool, peter, shaft of light, barb, fishgig, ray of light, dick, quill, diaphysis, rotating shaft, jibe, putz, lancet, scape, pecker, irradiation, lance, shot, fizgig

2. spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lanceverb

   an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

   Synonyms:
   fishgig, gig, fizgig, lancet, shaft, lance

3. spearverb

   pierce with a spear

   "spear fish"

   Synonyms:
   spear up

4. spear, spear upverb

   thrust up like a spear

   "The branch speared up into the air"

   Synonyms:
   spear up

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1. spearnoun

   Synonyms:
   lance, javelin, harpoon, assagai, trident, jireed, shoot, spire, blade

How to use spear in a sentence?

1. Simon Taylor:

   This database will be a rich source of information for the bad guys to create very compelling, targeted spear phishing attacks and increases the likelihood of recipients opening email attachments, which renders them, and their respective organizations, highly exposed to attack.

2. Kelly Bailey:

   I was walking over towards the Jetty where my son and his cousins were exploring and I noticed a fishing line pulling from far out in the water, i then saw a man reeling in a large marine reel and another man running towards the water with a spear. After the man was fighting to reel in what we all thought was a sport fish, was told by the other man holding the spear that it was in fact a shark.

3. Homer:

   It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

4. Matthew Greene:

   There was never a concrete understanding of what that could mean, but there was a lot of conversations that Proud Boys were looking at ourselves, at least the ones I was talking to, as being the tip of the spear if something was going to happen.

5. Donald Trump:

   Together you are the tip of the spear, the edge of the blade and the front of the shield defending and protecting our great country, you know there is no mission our pilots can't handle. There is no hill our marines can't take and there is no stronghold the SEALs can't breach. There is no sea the Navy can't brave and there is no storm the American sailor can't conquer. You know that together there is nothing Americans can't do. Absolutely nothing.

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