Synonyms 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, spear, 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:
   spear, 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, spear

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1. spearnoun

   Synonyms:
   lance, javelin

2. spearnoun

   Synonyms:
   shoot, spire

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1. spearnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "spear":

   lance, harpoon, lanza, launches, throw, initiates, spearhead, stylus

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1. James Scott:

   A single spear-phishing email carrying a slightly altered malware can bypass multi-million dollar enterprise security solutions if an adversary deceives a cyber-hygienically apathetic employee into opening the attachment or clicking a malicious link and thereby compromising the entire network.

2. Ed Rendell:

   The Clinton Foundation reportedly hired an outside cyber security company to look at its servers after possibly being hacked. Two sources familiar with the situationtold Reuterson Wednesday that no files from Hillary and Bill Clinton’s organization have surfaced in the public. One of the sources and two other U.S. security officials told the news agency that the hackers appeared to have used ‘spear phishing’ techniques to get access to the foundation’s systems.

3. 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.

4. John Hannah:

   The longer you allow Raqqa to exist as the operational heart of the Caliphate, the more likely they're going to be able to launch the kinds of attacks we saw last year, it's a genuine and very serious, political, military and diplomatic dilemma that the US is going to have to manage, assuming that the YPG is going to be the tip of the spear in Raqqa.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   it was my trench town reggae in the music of the rasta messengers like-burning spear- culture(joseph hill)- and others that taught the world that- christopher columbus was a liar. He did not discover jamaica nor america. So why are we still honoring him today?