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

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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. Nathan Adrian:

   When I had a bad practice before, it was a little bit of a dagger in the heart. I would be very, very affected by that, now, I just want to go home and immediately give my wife and baby a hug and a kiss.

2. 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?

3. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   Daesh is a dagger plunged into the chest of Muslims. Whoever gives support to this group, whether out of sectarian fanaticism or another motive, commits the same sin.

4. Sally Thompson:

   In Burma, everything was cloak and dagger, you didn't leave a paper trail, for your own protection. You didn't talk about things openly, you didn't share information because you couldn't trust anybody.

5. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.:

   A candour affected is a dagger concealed.