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stabbing

[stab-ing]

adjective

  1. penetrating; piercing.

    a stabbing pain.

  2. emotionally wounding.

    a stabbing remark.

  3. incisive or trenchant.

    a stabbing, satirical phrase.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • stabbingly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of stabbing1

First recorded in 1590–1600; stab + -ing 2
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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.

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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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There were two shootings, a stabbing — and widespread looting.

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Following a stabbing at a high school in Nantes in April, Bayrou called for "an intensification of controls put in place around and within schools".

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At the time of the fatal stabbing, Mr Masum was subject to court bail conditions to keep away from his wife following charges of assault by beating and making a threat to kill.

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