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Definitions for Stabbing

[1] penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
[2] emotionally wounding: a stabbing remark.
[3] incisive or trenchant: a stabbing, satirical phrase.
[4] to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
[5] to thrust, plunge, or jab (a knife, pointed weapon, or the like) into something: He stabbed the knife into the man's chest.
[6] to penetrate sharply or painfully: Their misery stabbed his conscience.
[7] 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.
[8] to thrust with or as if with a knife or other pointed weapon: to stab at an attacker.
[9] to deliver a wound, as with a pointed weapon.
[10] the act of stabbing.
[11] a thrust or blow with, or as if with, a pointed weapon.
[12] an attempt; try: Make a stab at an answer before giving up.
[13] a wound made by stabbing.
[14] a sudden, brief, and usually painful, sensation: He felt a stab of pain in his foot. A stab of pity ran through her.
[15] (tr) to pierce or injure with a sharp pointed instrument
[16] (tr) (of a sharp pointed instrument) to pierce or wound the knife stabbed her hand
[17] (when intr , often foll by at ) to make a thrust (at); jab he stabbed at the doorway
[18] (tr) to inflict with a sharp pain
[19] stab in the back (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
[20] the act or an instance of stabbing
[21] an injury or rift made by stabbing
[22] a sudden sensation, esp an unpleasant one a stab of pity
[23] informal an attempt (esp in the phrase make a stab at )

Words related to Stabbing

pointed, gnawing, jagged, shooting, fine, serrated, barbed, acuminate, peaked, tapering, piercing, keen, tined, honed, tapered, horned, whetted, aciculate, acute

Words nearby Stabbing

stab drain, stab in the back, a, stab kick, stab., stabat mater, stabbing, stabilate, stabile, stabilimeter, stability, stability pact

Origin of Stabbing

1325–75; (v.) Middle English (Scots ) stabben < ?; (noun) late Middle English, akin to or derivative of the v.; compare Scots stob stub1

Other words from Stabbing

stab·bing·ly , adverb
re·stab , verb, re·stabbed, re·stab·bing.
un·stabbed , adjective

Word origin for Stabbing

C14: from stabbe stab wound; probably related to Middle English stob stick

Synonyms for Stabbing

acuminate, barbed, edged, fine, gnawing, honed, horned, jagged, keen, peaked, piercing, pointed, serrated, sharpened, shooting, spiked, stinging, tapered, tapering, tined, tipped, whetted, aciculate, acuate, acuminous, acute, apical, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, ground fine, keen-edged, knife-edged, knifelike, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, sharp-edged, spiky, spiny, splintery, thorny, unblunted