spearing

verb

Definition of spearingnext
present participle of spear
as in stabbing
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 Synonyms for spearing
  1. stabbing
  2. jabbing
  3. piercing
  4. picking
Verb
  • The killer wanted for stabbing a father of three to death at a Brooklyn bodega bought a cup of coffee inside before throwing it in the victim’s face in the fight leading up to the slay, shocking video shows.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • That’s when Webb grabbed a hammer and hit Wilson in the head, the source said, but that wasn’t enough to stop him from stabbing her multiple times in the chest and back, mortally wounding her.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of stabbing
Verb
  • Companies perfected the art of evasion, leaving us jabbing the zero key like a deranged woodpecker just to talk to someone with a pulse.
    Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Unfortunately, too many creditors will simply start jabbing at hard assets and one-time bank account levies without seeing the enormous pot of gold in front of them in the debtor's revenue streams.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Definition of jabbing
Verb
  • And an image of a woman named Linda Jackson washing her hair in a plastic bin on the Navajo Nation, the striking mountains of Monument Valley piercing the background, was how Elliot Ross shed light on what life is like in America’s water inequality capital.
    TIME Photo Department, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The She Wolf's howl is as piercing as ever.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of piercing
Verb
  • The stylist from Anthropologie is picking.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In August 2018, the Washington Post reported that about a third of crab-picking jobs were vacant across the Eastern Shore.
    Mennatalla Ibrahim, Baltimore Sun, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of picking
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