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Antonyms for spear
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  1. 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, fizgig

  2. spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lanceverb

    an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

    Synonyms:
    fishgig, gig, fizgig, lancet, shaft, lance

  3. spearverb

    pierce with a spear

    "spear fish"

    Synonyms:
    spear up

  4. spear, spear upverb

    thrust up like a spear

    "The branch speared up into the air"

    Synonyms:
    spear up

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. spearnoun

    Synonyms:
    lance, javelin, harpoon, assagai, trident, jireed, shoot, spire, blade

How to use spear in a sentence?

  1. Ed Rendell:

    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.

  2. William Evanina:

    All organizations are vulnerable to insider threats from employees who may use their authorized access to facilities, personnel or information to harm their organizations - intentionally or unintentionally, 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.

  3. The Chamber president:

    What you're seeing is the tip of the spear, for every brand that you hear that's leaving him there's probably 20 or 30 more brands that have left him ... all the way down to families who were going to vacation at a Trump property -- it goes that far downstream.

  4. Donald Trump:

    Together you are the tip of the spear, the edge of the blade and the front of the shield defending and protecting our great country, you know there is no mission our pilots can't handle. There is no hill our marines can't take and there is no stronghold the SEALs can't breach. There is no sea the Navy can't brave and there is no storm the American sailor can't conquer. You know that together there is nothing Americans can't do. Absolutely nothing.

  5. Luke Sisinni:

    He said it spun around and started coming for him, so he stabbed it with his spear to try and scare it off, but it just went ballistic and bit him.

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