to spear
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4.9
- verb
- /spɪr/
- Spearing a leaping salmon.
- spearing fish
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Watch on YouTubeThere is some place where you can, you know, spear the beast.
- There is some place where you can, you know, spear the beast.
- Back then we would spear grouper, snapper, hogfish.
- He took a like a a wooden broom and he speared it through the wall, throwing it at his girlfriend.
- This is actually the first fish I've ever bow fished or speared in this boat.
- This ticket, the Harris Walls ticket, is like a spear that Spears into everything that MAGA tries to tear down.
- The first ever fish in the Coast Guard boat speared.
Examples
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Because he almost speared me in the face with it.
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It brings 'em to the top where I can spear them."
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Now, if you see one, you spear 'em right through the middle, all right?
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There is some place where you can, you know, spear the beast.
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She hollered out just when I was about to spear me a fish, a big fish.
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They roar to call the lions, then they spear them.
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I've eaten the big fish they spear out of the Silver River and smoke over alder fires.
Fiction book (1992) -
Back then we would spear grouper, snapper, hogfish.
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With the steak knife, he spears a strip of meat and lifts it from the sputtering grease.
Fiction book (1990) -
Using a sharp spear, he carefully speared the fish swimming by.
Synonyms
26
7.7
Push a sharp object through a person or animal
17
3.7
To push a sharp point through something to hold it
15
7.1
To cut or hurt someone with a sharp blade
10
9.9
To kill a person by driving a sharp wooden post through the chest
5
7.0
Cut a skin sore to let out fluid
1
7.9
To stab someone with a short pointed knife
To pierce someone or something with a pointed object
Push a sharp stick through something to hold it in place
To stab someone with a small pointed knife
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Etymology
Spear (verb) comes from the same idea of a long, pointed stick, so to spear something is to 'pierce' it as if with that stick.