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1. Causing physical or especially psychological injury
   "a stabbing remark"
   - wounding
    
2. Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
   "a stabbing pain"
   - cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, lancinate, lancinating

1. An incident in which someone is stabbed
   "police are appealing for witnesses to a stabbing which has left a boy fighting for his life"

1. Use a knife on
   "The victim was stabbed to death"
   - knife
    
2. Stab or pierce
   "he stabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife"
   - jab
    
3. Push suddenly or strongly with a finger or something pointed
   "he stabbed his finger into her ribs"
   - jab, prod, poke, dig

Derived forms: stabbings

See also: harmful, sharp, stabber

Type of: injure, thrust, wound

Encyclopedia: Stab