Crossword-Solution: SWORD 5 letters, 163 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Sword	n.	An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
Sword	n.	Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
Sword	n.	Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
Sword	n.	The military power of a country.
Sword	n.	One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

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Word		Anagrams
SWORD	anagram	WORDS

We have 163 clues for the answer “SWORD”

Clue	Answers
"... shall perish with the ___" (Matthew)	1 answer
"Forged in Fire" creation	1 answer
"The ___ in the Stone" (1963 animated film)	1 answer
Medieval knight’s weapon	1 answer
Bilbo or scimitar	1 answer
Bilbo, for one	1 answer
CIMETERRE	1 answer
CURTANA	1 answer
Card in a tarot suit	1 answer
Centurion weapon	1 answer
Combat, figuratively	1 answer
Cutlass or épée	1 answer
Damocles' dangler	1 answer
Damocles' worry	1 answer
Danger for Damocles	1 answer
De Bergerac's weapon	1 answer
Drawn weapon	1 answer
Dubbing need	1 answer
Duel-purpose weapon	1 answer
Ensiform, adj.: Shaped like a ___	1 answer
Epee or foil	1 answer
Excalibur	1 answer
Excalibur was one	1 answer
Excalibur, for example	1 answer
Excalibur, notably	1 answer
Feature of an Oscar statuette	1 answer
Fighting blade	1 answer
Flynn prop	1 answer
Frodo's Sting, e.g.	1 answer
GLADIUS	1 answer
Item less puissant than a pen	1 answer
Justice holds one.	1 answer
Katana or saber	1 answer
Katzbalger	1 answer
Kill Bill weapon	1 answer
Kind of dance or play	1 answer
King Arthur's Excalibur, for one	1 answer
King Arthur's Excalibur.	1 answer
Military metaphor	1 answer
Musketeer weapon	1 answer
Old arena draw?	1 answer
Pen's inferior in strength, so they say	1 answer
Pen's inferior, in a saying	1 answer
Pen's inferior, it's said	1 answer
Plowshare material, per Isaiah	1 answer
Plowshare material.	1 answer
Prince Valiant's weapon	1 answer
Prop in a Roman epic	1 answer
SCIMITARRA	1 answer
SHAMSHIR	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AARE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with SWORD (5)

Hence then, and evil go with thee along Thy ofspring, to the place of evil, Hell, Thou and thy wicked crew; there mingle broiles, Ere this avenging Sword begin thy doome, Or som more sudden vengeance wing’d from God Precipitate thee with augmented paine.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

All of a sudden Robbers rushed upon them from their hiding-places, and in the scuffle with their owners, wounded with a sword the Mule carrying the treasure, which they greedily seized while taking no notice of the grain.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

She had heard wondrous reports from time to time by dwellers in Weatherbury, who had by chance sojourned awhile in Casterbridge, near the barracks, of this strange and glorious performance, the sword-exercise.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Dost know thy lineage? Nay, thou know’st it not, And all unwitting art a double foe To thine own kin, the living and the dead; Aye and the dogging curse of mother and sire One day shall drive thee, like a two-edged sword, Beyond our borders, and the eyes that now See clear shall henceforward endless night.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

But I could imagine, even then, that, under some excitement which should go deeply into his consciousness—roused by a trumpet’s peal, loud enough to awaken all of his energies that were not dead, but only slumbering—he was yet capable of flinging off his infirmities like a sick man’s gown, dropping the staff of age to seize a battle-sword, and starting up once more a warrior.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with SWORD (3)

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And When he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden... But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out oflove’s threshing-floor, Into the s…

Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword." She raised an eyebrow." Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.

Brandon Sanderson Warbreaker

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

Jim Butcher Death Masks

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 158 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).