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Synonyms for dagger
ˈdæg ərdag·ger

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Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 4 votes

  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. daggernoun

    Synonyms:
    poniard, dirk, stiletto

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  1. daggernoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  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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#6792sword
#8323sticker
#9608spine
#21417dagger
#21418thorn
#21946poser
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#184250prickle
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How to use dagger in a sentence?

  1. Klay Thompson:

    About seven seconds on the clock he just kept going backward, I don’t know why, but he just threw it up and I didn’t think it had any chance of going in, that was kind of like a dagger shot. It just gave us all the momentum back.

  2. William Shakespeare:

    Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

  3. 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.

  4. Joe Biden:

    They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6 brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at it( them) as patriots, they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. This time they are determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people.

  5. Idiom:

    Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach


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