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stab
1[stab]
verb (used with object)
to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.
She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
Synonyms: , , ,to thrust, plunge, or jab (a knife, pointed weapon, or the like) into something.
He stabbed the knife into the man's chest.
to penetrate sharply or painfully.
Their misery stabbed his conscience.
to make a piercing, thrusting, or pointing motion at or in.
He stabbed me in the chest with his finger.
The speaker stabbed the air in anger.
verb (used without object)
to thrust with or as if with a knife or other pointed weapon.
to stab at an attacker.
to deliver a wound, as with a pointed weapon.
stab.
2abbreviation
stabilization.
stabilizer.
stable.
stab
/ ²õ³Ùæ²ú /
verb
(tr) to pierce or injure with a sharp pointed instrument
(tr) (of a sharp pointed instrument) to pierce or wound
the knife stabbed her hand
to make a thrust (at); jab
he stabbed at the doorway
(tr) to inflict with a sharp pain
(verb) to do damage to the reputation of (a person, esp a friend) in a surreptitious way
(noun) a treacherous action or remark that causes the downfall of or injury to a person
noun
the act or an instance of stabbing
an injury or rift made by stabbing
a sudden sensation, esp an unpleasant one
a stab of pity
informalÌýan attempt (esp in the phrase make a stab at )
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- restab verb
- unstabbed adjective
- ˈ²õ³Ù²¹²ú²ú±ð°ù noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of stab1
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of stab1
Idioms and Phrases
stab (someone) in the back, to do harm to (someone), especially to a friend or to a person who is unsuspecting or in a defenseless position.
a stab in the back, an act of treachery.
Example Sentences
A man who stabbed two women to death and attacked his son on Christmas Day while high on drugs has been jailed for at least 39 years.
A woman found stabbed after a gas explosion at her home has been named as a charity worker who supported refugees.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was found with stab wounds at a house in east London following a suspected a gas explosion.
Austria has never seen a school attack on this scale, but the French stabbing took place during a government programme aimed at tackling the growth in knife crime.
On Wednesday afternoon, police responded to a call of a stabbing on the 100 block of North Rossmore Avenue in the Hancock Park neighborhood.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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