to spear

Examples

• All

• Sunlight spears the hearse windshield, making Dwaine's already dream-ridden eyes look even spookier.

  Academic text (2007)

• And the signature twin spires of the track spear up through it.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Above me, more holes appeared in the clouds, and a tangle of beams speared down.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The much elongated reflection of the sun, dazzlingly bright, bounced off the halo and speared Lando's eyes.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The pointed roof of the building speared upward into the clear blue sky.

• As the sun rose, its rays speared through the trees, casting long shadows on the ground.

• The rocket speared through the clouds, reaching for the stars above.

Synonyms

S

to spear up

vsto spear

8.8

To rise straight up like a long thin point

has identical meaning but is the single-word base verb form

Antonyms

F

to fall

∞ 1.0

Move or drop down from a higher to a lower place

S

to sink

258 1.0

To go down below the surface of water and become underwater

Phrasal Verbs

S

to spear up

8.8

To rise straight up like a long thin point

Compounds

S

spear carrier

1 8.8

A person who has a very small part in a play or film, often with no lines

S

spear-point

1 5.1

A sharp metal or stone tip on a spear for piercing

S

spear thrower

1 8.2

A tool for throwing a spear or dart much farther than by hand

K

king's spear

• Specialized

9.9

A garden plant with tall stems and spikes of fragrant yellow flowers

S

spear chucker

• Slur

9.9

A very rude racist insult used against Black people

S

spear thistle

7.9

A tall thistle with large flower heads and sharp spines that grows wild as a weed

How Sharply

to soar

96 3.4

to shoot up

25 4.1

to spear

1 7.7

to jut

19 4.8

to slant

25 3.7

Surface Forms

Etymology