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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.





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"Stabbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... poison had been the cause of his end, and she would have swallowed the dregs if any had been left, and she kissed his still warm lips to try if any poison yet did hang upon them; then hearing a nearer noise of people coming, she quickly unsheathed a dagger which she wore, and, stabbing herself, died ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
... neglect than an undoing, and scorns no man so much as his surly threatener. A man quickly fired, and quickly laid down with satisfaction, but remits any injury sooner than words: only to himself he is irreconcileable, whom he never forgives a disgrace, but is still stabbing himself with the thought of it, and no disease that he dies of sooner. He is one had rather perish than be beholden for his life, and strives more to quit with his friend than his enemy. Fortune may kill him but not deject him, nor make him fall into an humbler key than before, but he ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various
... northern sky Mt. Temple was lifted sharply outlined; from its crest a leaping flame was stabbing at the stars, a new signal-fire to be seen across ...
— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory
... "thirty miles"). But in his eyes, he continued—a tone of bored, weary conviction replacing his previous voluble delivery—the gentleman was already "in the similitude of a corpse." "What? What do you say?" I asked. He assumed a startlingly ferocious demeanour, and imitated to perfection the act of stabbing from behind. "Already like the body of one deported," he explained, with the insufferably conceited air of his kind after what they imagine a display of cleverness. Behind him I perceived Jim smiling silently ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... rose and pursued his way, still travelling northeast, his bird-like eyes skimming the land and horizon. He sang as he pursued his way, and his song fitted his filed teeth to a charm. If a poisoned arrow could sing or a stabbing spear, it would sing what Felix sang as he went, his long morning shadow stalking behind him; he as soulless and ...
— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole


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