spearhead, jemmy, groan with something

The 54-year-old virologist, who has experience fighting Sars and Ebola, will spearhead an effort in Wuhan to understand the coronavirus.



WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination of the world's internet search engine market. ...

Sniffing a fetid odor, George Bell's neighbor called 911. Once firefighters had jimmied the door, the police squeezed into a beaten apartment groaning with possessions. CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times

jemmy

ˈdʒɛmi/

verb

informal

past tense: jimmied; past participle: jimmied

1. force open (a window or door) with a jemmy.

   "a burglar jemmied his patio doors"

groan with something

to groan because of something, such as pain. She groaned with pain, but no one helped her. I think the old man was groaning withboredom more than anything else.

spearhead
verb [T]
to lead something such as an attack or a course of action:
British troops spearheaded the invasion.
Joe Walker will be spearheading our new marketing initiative.

spearhead Show phonetics
noun [C usually singular]
American troops formed the spearhead (= were at the front) of the attack.