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. George Karavetsos:

   I can't think of anybody who would be better positioned to the be the tip of the spear for the vaccine, there has been no letup on the gas with her in an acting capacity.

2. Matthew Greene:

   There was never a concrete understanding of what that could mean, but there was a lot of conversations that Proud Boys were looking at ourselves, at least the ones I was talking to, as being the tip of the spear if something was going to happen.

3. 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.

4. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

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5. James Scott:

   A Nation State or Cyber-Mercenary won’t hack e-voting machines one by one. This takes too long and will have minimal impact. Instead, they’ll take an easier approach like spear phishing the manufacturer with malware and poison the voting machine update pre-election and allow the manufacturer to update each individual machine with a self-deleting payload that will target the tabulation process.