STABBING

cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating

(adjective) 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”; “lancinating pain”

stabbing, wounding

(adjective) causing physical or especially psychological injury; “a stabbing remark”; “wounding and false charges of disloyalty”

STAB

jab, prod, stab, poke, dig

(verb) poke or thrust abruptly; “he jabbed his finger into her ribs”

stab, jab

(verb) stab or pierce; “he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife”

knife, stab

(verb) use a knife on; “The victim was knifed to death”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

stabbing (not comparable)

(of pain) Sharp, intense.

Noun

stabbing (plural stabbings)

An incident in which a person is stabbed.

Hyponym: knifing

Verb

stabbing

present participle of stab

Source: Wiktionary

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STAB

Stab, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stabbing.] Etym: [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.

Stab, v. i.

1. To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon. None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in closer war. Dryden.

2. To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. Shak. To stab at, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a pointed weapon at.

Stab, n.

1. The thrust of a pointed weapon.

2. A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin. Shak.

3. Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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