Antonyms 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. daggernoun

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

How to use dagger in a sentence?

1. Scott C. Holstad:

   They gave me killer pills that knocked me on my ass for a few hours at least so I wouldn’t have to hear the godawful screaming. I’m exhausted and my blood boils and there’s nothing I can do. There was another life that seems so long ago and I try to reconstruct images, events, people, all just dreams tethered to the knife in my soul. This is my cross, my dagger, my napalm, my dance of the dead…

2. Tyron Edwards:

   The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

3. David Horowitz:

   Sanctuary campuses are not only part of a radical attack on America’s social, political, and educational establishment but a dagger aimed at the rule of law and the nation’s safety.

4. 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 ?

5. Bettina Tremmel:

   The discovery of the dagger was emotional. We were lost for words, imagine: Though thousands of Roman soldiers were stationed in Haltern over almost 15 years or more, there are only a few finds of weapons, especially complete and intact ones.

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