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Stabbing   /stˈæbɪŋ/   Listen
Stabbing

adjective
1.
Causing physical or especially psychological injury.  Synonym: wounding.  "Wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
2.
Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument.  Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing.  "Keen winds" , "Knifelike cold" , "Piercing knifelike pains" , "Piercing cold" , "Piercing criticism" , "A stabbing pain" , "Lancinating pain"



Stab

verb
(past & past part. stabbed; pres. part. stabbing)
1.
Use a knife on.  Synonym: knife.
2.
Stab or pierce.  Synonym: jab.
3.
Poke or thrust abruptly.  Synonyms: dig, jab, poke, prod.



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"Stabbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... skin. Yes, the border was a bloody place. But life had always been bloody. Men were blood-spillers. Phases of the history of the world flashed through her mind—Greek and Roman wars, dark, mediaeval times, the crimes in the name of religion. On sea, on land, everywhere—shooting, stabbing, cursing, clashing, fighting men! Greed, power, oppression, fanaticism, love, hate, revenge, justice, freedom—for ...
— Riders of the Purple Sage • Zane Grey

... cause of his end, and she would have swallowed the dregs if any had been left, and she kissed his still warm lips to try if any poison yet did hang upon them; then hearing a nearer noise of people coming, she quickly unsheathed a dagger which she wore, and stabbing herself, died by ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

... spears, stabbing at the sensitive spot behind the jawbones of the unicorns, thwarted the backward flung heads and the unicorns were slowly forced into submission. The last one conceded temporary defeat and the long journey to the south started, the unicorns going in the run ...
— Space Prison • Tom Godwin

... carried on thus by a few men, would be none the less deadly because it would not involve fighting. There would be no pitched battles, that much he knew. Instead, there would be swift, stabbing raids. Water works, gas works, would be blown up. Attempts would be made to drop bombs in barracks, perhaps. Certainly every effort would be made to destroy the great warehouses in which food was stored. It was new, this sort of warfare; it defied the imagination. And yet ...
— Facing the German Foe • Colonel James Fiske

... it, Wedge—mark my words. All this stabbing and killing comes from too much work and no play. Jack's at his tools for ever—gets a dull boy—and then stabs and cuts about him for the sake of getting lively. Government should have playgrounds in every ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various


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