bayoneted

Pierced with blade

Bayoneted is the past tense of bayonet, meaning to stab or kill with a bayonet—the blade attached to the muzzle of a rifle.

The word appears most often in accounts of close combat: The soldier bayoneted the enemy in the trench.

It can also describe threatening with a bayonet: Guards bayoneted prisoners who moved too slowly.

combat

stabbed

Pierced with blade

thrust · charged · assaulted · attacked · gored · transfixed · run through · gutted · speared · wounded

historical

musket

Muzzle-loaded infantry firearm

revolution · battalion · redcoat · cavalry · colonial · militia · Civil War · World War I · trench · doughboy

weapon

blade

Flat cutting edge

attached · sharpened · pointed · thrust · parry · scabbard · socket · sword · knife · lug

Opposites
method of harm

bayonetedshot

Quick liquor serving

bombed · shelled · gassed · gunned down · strafed

violence vs. non-violence

bayonetedspared

Refrained from harming

protected · rescued · safe · unharmed · shielded

harm vs. healing

bayonetedbandaged

Covered with dressing

treated · healed · nursed · sutured · tended

Phrases
Family

bayonet, bayonets, bayoneting, bayonetting

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13