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LOOK DAGGERS

Specialty Definition: LOOK DAGGERS

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Literature

Look Daggers (To). To look very angry, as if to annihilate you. Clytus says to Alexander, "You cannot look me dead."
"You may look daggers, but use none." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: LOOK DAGGERS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Resentment

Pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit.

Threat

Defy; intimidate; keep in terrorem, hold up in terrorem, hold out in terrorem; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: LOOK DAGGERS

Specialty definitions using "LOOK DAGGERS": Daggers. (references)

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Expressions: LOOK DAGGERS

Expressions using "LOOK DAGGERS": look daggers at smb. To look daggers. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LOOK DAGGERS

Language Translations for "LOOK DAGGERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

loupnout po kom oèima (glare at smb., look daggers at smb.), probodávat koho oèima (look daggers at smb.). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyilkos pillantást vet vkire (to look daggers at sy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

目'三'にする (to look daggers at someone). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

め'さ"かくにする (to look daggers at someone). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ooklay aggersday

   

Romanian

  

privi furios. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

злобно смотреть (leer), бросать гневные взгляды. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

se mordisk ut. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ters ters bakmak (glower, look daggers at smb.), düşmanca bakmak (look daggers at smb.). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LOOK DAGGERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-g-k-l-o-o-r-s"

-3 letters: doggrels, draggles.

-4 letters: aerosol, daggers, daggles, darkles, dogears, doggers, doggrel, doglegs, draggle, galores, gaolers, gargled, gargles, goorals, laggers, loaders, lodgers, loggers, lookers, ordeals, raggles, regosol, reloads, relooks, roadeos, roseola, skoaled, slagged, slogged, slogger.

-5 letters: adores, aggers, aggros, alders, aldose, algors, argled, argles, argols, arkose, dagger, daggle, dagoes, darkle, dogear, dogger, dogleg, dolors, dorsal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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