Thesaurus results for SPEARED

speared

verb

past tense of spear

as in stabbed

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object she speared a pea with her fork and angrily flung it

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Recent Examples of speared The word mom speared out of her mouth. — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026 Fatu was dazed and Reigns speared him through the table. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026 Remove speared fish from the water or tow them a safe distance behind you. — ABC News, 26 May 2026 Vecna gets speared, the monster goes down, the creepy heart stops beating and everyone's alive! — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025 Roman Reigns speared Fatu through the barricade. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Homemade potato chips come speared on a wooden skewer, perfect for pulling and snacking. — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 6 Dec. 2025 The knife remains in the dominant hand, poised to cut when necessary or push food that can’t be speared atop the fork’s overturned tines. — Terry Ward, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025 With one out and runners on first and second, the Athletics’ Lawrence Butler smashed a line drive at second baseman Casey Schmitt, who speared the ball and quickly fired a throw to shortstop Willy Adames for a potential inning-ending double play. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 25 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for speared

Verb

Two men were stabbed as the crowds scattered, and there were several accounts of violence between fans, as well as police tackling and pepper-spraying people in a chaotic scene.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
Police said Chiturumani, the girl’s non-custodial father, allegedly stabbed the child’s mother and threatened to kill the child.

— Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026

Definition of stabbed

Verb

Watt had his lung punctured by the medical staff last season and will turn 32 in October.

— Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 16 June 2026
But there were also perplexing moments that punctured the gravitas of the event (even for an event built around hand-to-hand combat).

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026

Definition of punctured

Verb

And now, 44 years on, new generations of Villa fans could also cherish the moment when Buendia’s cross was jabbed in from close range by Morgan Rogers for the third, ensuring every Brummie in Istanbul could relax and soak in the game’s final 30 minutes.

— Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 21 May 2026
The boxers, aged 40 and 42 respectively, threw hopeful knockout punches and barely jabbed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026

Definition of jabbed

Verb

The Seattle Mariners were one of the teams that most people picked to win the World Series, or at least make a deep run into the playoffs.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
Mengel, who has directed such drama series as My Different Ways and Supplex, and his creative collaborators will bring The Guest to the Czech spa town as the first Danish film picked for Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe Competition since 2015.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026

Definition of picked

Verb

Twenty-seven people were inside the building, two of whom got stuck before ultimately freeing themselves and exiting the building.

— Drew Pittock, USA Today, 7 July 2026
When the rope broke, three people fell 30 to 40 feet to the beach, and the other three were stuck halfway up the cliff.

— Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 6 July 2026