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Stabbing   /stˈæbɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Stab  v. t.  (past & past part. stabbed; pres. part. stabbing)  
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."
2.
To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon. "She speaks poniards, and every word stabs."
To stab at, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a pointed weapon at.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Stabbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... defeat of my defeated life Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour; And turned to yearning palsy all my power, And all my peace to strife, Self stabbing self ...
— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti
... them?" I asked, stabbing my sheet of music paper with the pen, while I tried in vain to think how many eighth notes would fill ...
— Ladies-In-Waiting • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... monuments and the far end of the great basin. Slone believed, because the place was so large, that Wildfire thought there was a way out on the other side or over the slopes or through the walls. Never before had the farsighted stallion made a mistake. Slone suddenly felt the keen, stabbing fear of an outlet somewhere. But it left him quickly. He had studied those slopes and walls. Wildfire could not get out, except by the pass he had ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... five minutes; but Neal would have said an hour had passed since he was first seized, and then Cummings won the victory by slipping from the alligator's back regardless of the rapidly moving tail, and stabbing him under the ...
— The Search for the Silver City - A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan • James Otis
... the palisade, then another and another. The brave Daulac was struck dead, but the survivors kept up the now hopeless fight. With sword, hatchet, or knife, they threw themselves against the throng of enemies, striking and stabbing with the fury of madmen, till the Iroquois, despairing of taking them alive, fired volley after volley and shot them down. All was over, and a burst of triumphant ...
— Old Quebec - The Fortress of New France • Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan


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