Definitions for dagger

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dagger dag·ger

Spelling: [dag-er]

IPA: /ˈdæg ər/

Dagger is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in dagger (adeggr).

Definitions for dagger

noun

1. a short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing.
2. Also called obelisk. Printing. a mark (†) used especially for references.

Idioms

1. look daggers at, to look at angrily, threateningly, or with hate.

verb (used with object)

1. to stab with or as if with a dagger.
2. Printing. to mark with a dagger.

Origin of dagger

1350-1400; Middle English, probably alteration of Old French dague, of obscure origin; cf. dag¹

Examples for dagger

Worse, the court could stick a dagger right in the heart of the Buckley framework and undo all contribution limits.

As soon as he sees her, Shae reaches for a dagger, and Tyrion pounces on her, strangling her to death with her own necklace.

Mr Clayton was pushing me forward, and urging a dagger into my hand.

It was ‘like a dagger to his heart and he hasn’t got over it.

A rapier and a dagger found on the Thames foreshore show us that swordfights routinely broke out on the streets of London.

Wiglaf stabs the dragon from underneath, and Bewulf cuts it in two with his dagger.

The dagger tattooed on his cheek conveys a menacing persona.

Yet his heart still seemed to fester with the venom of the dagger.

The stranger drew out his dagger, cut the meat, and they all ate in company.

But you can cut off a vine-branch with a dagger or with a chisel, and in many other ways?