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Stabbing definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STABBING, ppr. Piercing with a pointed weapon; killing with a pointed instrument by piercing the body.
STABBING, n. The act of piercing with a pointed weapon; the act of wounding or killing with a pointed instrument.
This statute was made on account of the frequent quarrels and stabbings with short daggers.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" [syn: stabbing, wounding]
2: 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" [syn: cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stabbings) 1. A stabbing is an incident in which someone stabs someone else with a knife. N-COUNT 2. A stabbing pain is a sudden sharp pain. He was struck by a stabbing pain in his midriff. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

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