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Stab   /stæb/   Listen
noun
Stab  n.  
1.
The thrust of a pointed weapon.
2.
A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab of an assassin.
3.
Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.


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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"Stab" Quotes from Famous Books



... men needed the foolish idealists, too. And maybe for a time here on Mars their kind of men and his kind of fools could make one more stab at the ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey
... to eat; so he called for an apple and a knife; for it was his custom formerly to pare the apple himself, and soon afterwards to cut it, and eat it. When he had got the knife, he looked about, and had a mind to stab himself with it; and he had done it, had not his first cousin, Achiabus, prevented him, and held his hand, and cried out loudly. Whereupon a woeful lamentation echoed through the palace, and a great tumult was made, as ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus
... late. For one instant the face of the first wife looked up at her, smiling, fat, fatuous, from the heart of the glowing coals, then, with a stab of the poker, wielded by a remorseless ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... sane counsel, he telephoned to John Merkle. Bob was too deeply agitated to more than note the banker's statement that Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal Wharton were in the city, but, recalling it later, he experienced a stab of regret that his mother was not here to comfort Lorelei in the first great crisis of her womanhood. It had been Lorelei's wish that her own mother be kept in ignorance of the truth, and now, therefore, the girl had no one to lean upon except an unpractical stage-woman—and a drunken husband. ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... stab my honour under his eye: There is a rose that's ready; Though I bleed to the death, I shall let out the lie: There's a rose that's ready ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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