Synonyms for spear
spɪərspear

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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

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1. spearnoun

   Synonyms:
   lance, javelin

2. spearnoun

   Synonyms:
   shoot, spire

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1. spearnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "spear":

   lance, harpoon, lanza, launches, throw, initiates, spearhead, stylus

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1. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   it was my trench town reggae in the music of the rasta messengers like-burning spear- culture(joseph hill)- and others that taught the world that- christopher columbus was a liar. He did not discover jamaica nor america. So why are we still honoring him today?

2. 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.

3. Simon Taylor:

   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.

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. James Scott:

   A single spear-phishing email carrying a slightly altered malware can bypass multi-million dollar enterprise security solutions if an adversary deceives a cyber-hygienically apathetic employee into opening the attachment or clicking a malicious link and thereby compromising the entire network.