spear up

1. 1.

   thrust up like a spear

   “The branch speared up into the air”

   Synonymsspear

   Broaderstick out

Questions about spear up

What does spear up mean?

spear up means "thrust up like a spear".

What is another word for spear up?

Close synonyms include spear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spear up a common word?

spear up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.