Synonyms for dagger
ˈdæg ərdag·ger

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1. dagger, stickernoun

   a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing

   Synonyms:
   thorn, spikelet, paster, spine, pricker, poser, sticker, toughie, stumper, prickle, gummed label, obelisk

2. dagger, obelisknoun

   a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

   Synonyms:
   sticker, obelisk

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1. • Character
   • Knife

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. daggernoun

   Synonyms:
   poniard, dirk, stiletto

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1. daggernoun

   Synonyms:
   stiletto, poniard, bowie knife, dirk, obelisk

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1. List of paraphrases for "dagger":

   knife, sword

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1. List of known nicknames for "Dagger":

   Anders "Dagger" Sandberg, Anders Sandberg

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1. Nathaniel Dominy:

   You'd think that men would be incentivized to use the best dagger possible once their life is on the line, it provoked the question : did they differ in terms of their mechanical efficiency ?

2. Ellen Molekane:

   The maintenance of national security in general and the conduct of intelligence work, in particular, is not the Cold War era, cloak-and-dagger myth which is continuously advanced by the popular media.

3. Christian Baldauf:

   Who can understand that a rejected asylum seeker who has been tried several times for various violent crimes cannot be deported, but the same man manages to travel back to his home country in a cloak and dagger operation?

4. William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1:

   Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

5. William Shakespeare:

   Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain