🗡️ A short knife † A footnote mark † To mark text 🗡️ To stab

to dagger

1 7.9

To stab someone with a short pointed knife

verb
/ˈdæɡər/

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: apuñalar

And they would come up to them in a crowd and dagger them, kill them, and then put the dagger back and escape through the crowd.

Examples

And they would come up to them in a crowd and dagger them, kill them, and then put the dagger back and escape through the crowd.

Alex O'Connor
The assassin planned to dagger his target during the crowded festival.
In the heat of battle, he attempted to dagger the enemy soldier from behind.
If you dagger someone in the game, it means you've made a surprise attack on them.

Synonyms

to knife

vsto dagger

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15 7.1

To cut or hurt someone with a sharp blade

is specific to attacking with a short pointed fighting weapon rather than any cutter

to stake

vsto dagger

Offensive

10 9.9

To kill a person by driving a sharp wooden post through the chest

is a general violent stabbing rather than a ritual execution with a pole

to spear

vsto dagger

8 4.9

To pierce something with a long sharp point like a stick or fork

is an attack using a short pointed fighting weapon rather than a long pole

to bayonet

vsto dagger

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2 9.3

To stab someone with a blade fixed to a rifle

is about close stabbing attacks with a short handheld pointed weapon not fixed

to tomahawk

vsto dagger

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1 9.9

To hit or cut with a small Native American axe

is about stabbing with a short pointed fighting weapon rather than chopping or cutting

to daggering

vsto dagger

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9.7

To stab someone with a small pointed knife

is the same action but described as attacking with that small stabbing weapon

to poignard

vsto dagger

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9.9

To stab someone with a small pointed knife

is the neutral everyday description of attacking with that weapon

to poniard

vsto dagger

Archaic

9.9

To stab someone with a small thin dagger

is the general act of attacking with a similar short pointed weapon

to transfix

vsto dagger

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7.9

Push a sharp stick through something to hold it in place

is an attack aiming to stab rather than to impale and hold

to saber

vsto dagger

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8.0

To cut or wound someone with a sword

is focused on stabbing with a short pointed fighting weapon rather than slashing

Antonyms

to defend

∞ 1.3

To protect people and things from attack or harm

Compounds

cloak-and-dagger

Informal

5 8.9

Being secret and mysterious like spy stories

Bridport dagger

Archaic

9.9

A small old knife with a short pointed blade that collectors keep and museums show

dagger-like

5.9

Shaped like a small, sharp knife with a pointed end

dagger fern

9.4

An evergreen fern with long narrow pointed leaves

double dagger

Specialized

8.9

A small mark that shows a third footnote in printed text after an asterisk and a dagger

Spanish dagger

8.7

A plant with long pointed leaves like swords and clusters of white flowers

How Violent

to impale

Offensive

26 7.7

to dagger

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1 7.9

jab

16 3.0

poke

4 2.5

Surface Forms

dagger infinitive

daggered past

daggered past participle

daggering present participle

daggers third person singular

Etymology

Dagger as a verb comes straight from the noun dagger — to dagger someone is to stab them with a small pointed knife. So the action name comes from the object used.