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stabbing   (TTS Sound)

The verb stab has 3 senses

• knife, stab -- (use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death")


• stab, jab -- (stab or pierce; "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife")


• jab, prod, stab, poke, dig -- (poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs")

The adj stabbing has 2 senses

• stabbing, wounding -- (causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty")


• cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating -- (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")