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bayonet

verb as in stab

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If the training were realistic, our high school boys would be instructed in how to twist a bayonet in another boy’s body, how to wear gas masks, how to throw grenades, how to battle cooties and rats and spend hours in mud in trenches.

He charged that the central government was attempting to “rewrite all law” and preparing to force integration on the state with “troops and bayonets,” as they had done in Mississippi, and he pledged never to submit voluntarily.

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He received the Silver Star for his actions in Velletri, where he repelled an enemy attack with his machine-gun section, and once traversed a minefield with his fellow soldiers by forcing sheep through first at bayonet point.

The point of the bayonet emerges through the left side of his chest, exactly where his heart is.

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Thirty-two feet high, standing on a granite plinth, is a bronze statue of a bound-and-gagged soldier being stabbed through the back with a bayonet.

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This prompts Sarah Lynn to stab herself with a Confederate bayonet letter-opener, causing a geyser of blood.

A man, dressed in rags, stalks across the field, impaling the bodies with a bayonet.

One of my men whom I knew for a womanish fellow, asked if he should put his bayonet through him.

At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.

The Canadians taught me bayonet fighting, and I led a bayonet charge in the Korean war.

I only saw the glitter of a bayonet which a Mexican thrust into his shoulder, at the very moment he was helping me up.

To save his faithful servant Frank wheeled Nejdi, and cut down a native who was lunging at Chumru with a bayonet.

Mine should be of pure steel; I have ordered her out of my consciousness these last weeks at the point of the bayonet.

They are faced by a horrid redoubt held by machine guns, and they are to rush it with the bayonet.

At the critical moment of the Austrian counter-attack at Dego, Lannes cleared the village by a brisk bayonet charge.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bayonet, such as: knife, and pierce.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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