SHAFTS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

shafts

noun

plural of shaft

as in beams

a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object shafts of late-afternoon sunlight pierced the blinds and streaked the floor

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as in spears

a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade the footmen set their shafts so as to form a bank of steel against the enemy's charging cavalry

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as in injustices

unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this the homeowners who were bought out are convinced they got the shaft in that deal

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Where once oppression grew and proliferated under the horrors and injustices of slavery, where once the state of North Carolina literally dumped poison on the land, today Oakley Grove plantation is fertile with a new sustainable crop—hope.

Longreads, Longreads, 6 Dec. 2024
Elwood’s wrongful detention is only the first of the Job-like litany of injustices heaped upon him.

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024

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