Thesaurus results for SPEARED

speared

verb

Definition of speared next

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 After striking out Bryson Stott for the inning’s first out, Webb got an assist from Chapman, who speared Edmundo Sosa’s sharp grounder and fired home for the second out. —

Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026 Out of nowhere, D’Angelo speared both men through the announce table. —

Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2026 The word mom speared out of her mouth. —

Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026 Vecna gets speared, the monster goes down, the creepy heart stops beating and everyone's alive! —

Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 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 Homemade potato chips come speared on a wooden skewer, perfect for pulling and snacking. —

Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 6 Dec. 2025 Reed and Breakker picked up a win after Breakker speared Jey and Jimmy through a table, and Reed hit a tsunami on Jey for the pinfall. —

Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025 Aztecs speared and ate them, and Catholic monks indulged on the aquatic delicacies on days they weren’t allowed to eat red meat. —

Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025

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Arriving officers found an unresponsive man who had significant injuries consistent with being stabbed, Becchina said.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
What followed, Lane claimed, was a four-hour altercation in which Wilson choked and stabbed him multiple times in the chest and hand, before throwing him through a pair of sliding glass doors.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026