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stabbing |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stab \Stab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stabbed}; p. pr & vb n. {Stabbing}.] [Cf. OD staven to fix, fasten, fr stave, staff, a staff, rod; akin to G. stab a staff, stick, E. staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., a stake, a stub. Cf {Staff}.] 1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as to stab a man with a dagger; also to thrust; as to stab a dagger into a person. 2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as to stab a person's reputation. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stabbing adj 1: causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" [syn: {traumatic}, {wounding}] 2: as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "a gray world with ice and toothed winds" [syn: {cutting}, {keen}, {knifelike}, {piercing}]
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