What are some opposite words for spear?
Antonyms for spear
spɪərspear
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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, fizgigspear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lanceverb
an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
spearverb
pierce with a spear
"spear fish"
Synonyms:
spear upspear, spear upverb
thrust up like a spear
"The branch speared up into the air"
Synonyms:
spear up
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How to use spear in a sentence?
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.
I see Jews at the point of the hate spear in this country.
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.
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.
The harm can range from negligence, such as failing to secure data or clicking on a spear-phishing link, to malicious activities like theft, sabotage, espionage, unauthorized disclosure of classified information or even violence.
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