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Synonyms for shark
ʃɑrkshark

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sharknoun

    any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

  2. sharknoun

    a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

  3. sharkverb

    a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways

    "a card shark"

  4. sharkverb

    play the shark; act with trickery

  5. sharkverb

    hunt shark

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sharknoun

    Synonyms:
    sharper, cheat, swindler, blackleg, knave, trickster, slyboots, jockey, SHYSTER, artful fellow

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 3 votes

  1. sharknoun

    Synonyms:
    sharper, trickster, cheat, swindler, fraud, trickery

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "shark":

    sharks, -shark, mako

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How to use shark in a sentence?

  1. Danny McDaniel:

    We looked around that the shark was out of the area and then started cracking up and laughing, what a once in a lifetime experience for both of us.

  2. David Guillot:

    I've been at sea for 30 years and I’ve never seen a shark that looks like that, it was like a large eel, probably 1.5 meters [5 feet] long, and the body was quite different to any other shark I'd ever seen.

  3. Leah Rubin:

    Like most research endeavors, this first paper offers more questions than it can answer, and we plan on investigating the breadth of data denticles( v-shaped scales) offer through a varied set of lenses, from hydrodynamics to ecology, the current state of declining shark populations is certainly cause for concern.

  4. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone:

    They've always been out there, of course, you're interacting with marine life whenever you are out in the ocean, but they're closer to shore now. And those contacts -- those interactions with humans and shark may increase.

  5. Jennifer Lighter-Fisher:

    Ebola's like a shark bite.


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