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dagger
[dag-er]
noun
a short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing.
Also called obelisk.Printing.a mark (†) used especially for references.
verb (used with object)
to stab with or as if with a dagger.
Printing.to mark with a dagger.
dagger
/ ˈæɡə /
noun
a short stabbing weapon with a pointed blade
Also called: obelisk.a character (†) used in printing to indicate a cross reference, esp to a footnote
in a state of open hostility
to glare with hostility; scowl
verb
to mark with a dagger
archaicto stab with a dagger
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dagger1
Idioms and Phrases
look daggers at, to look at angrily, threateningly, or with hate.
Example Sentences
They built on that momentum, and with 37 seconds left, Thornton delivered the dagger: a three-pointer that sealed a hard-fought win.
The University of Alabama College Democrats released a statement on Wednesday that accused President Donald Trump and his administration of striking a "cold, vicious dagger through the heart of UA's international community."
“We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion,” he said.
Lightning coach Kerwin Walters called this three in the final minute a "dagger."
Wealth has a way of sorting relationships when one friend's opulence brings out lustful envy in the others, the deadly sins most likely to drive daggers into the gut of any platonic bond.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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