spear
To pierce with a spearTo pierce with a spear.
Meaning
5 senses(transitive)To pierce with a spear.
pierce with a spear
(broadly, transitive)To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
(intransitive)To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
(especially, obsolete, transitive)To ignore as a social snub.
Examples
62 sentencesTom stabbed Mary with a spear.
ruТом ударил Мэри копьем. — odexed
Have you ever gone spear fishing?
Tom was killed by the spear.
Tom was about to throw his spear when he got stabbed in the back.
The spear missed Tom.
ruКопьё не попало в Тома. — Ooneykcall
deDer Speer verfehlte Tom. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West GermanicFrom Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
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Forms
spears, spearing, speared, spearedSynonyms
3 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.